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COMMEMORATIVE  VOLU 

FIFTIETH    ANNIVERSARY 


Central  Wesleyan  College 


WARRENTON,  MISSOURI 


May- June,  1914 


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COMMEMORATIVE  VOLUME 


FIFTIETH    ANNIVERSARY 


Central  Wesleyan  College 


WARRENTON,  MISSOURI 


May- June,  1914 


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Edited  by  the  following  Committee  of  the  Faculty: 
O.  E.KRIEGE  H.  VOSHOLL  J.  H.  FRICK  F.  MUNZ  ALB.  EBELING 


WARRENTON,  MISSOURI 

BANNER  PUBLISHING   COMPANY 

1914 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


[Articles  appear  in  the  order  named  below] 

Historical  and  Biographical  Sketches 


Historical  Statement. 

Quincy  Days. 

War  Times. 

Mt.  Pleasant  Days. 

Fires  and  Tornadoes. 

Humor  and   Pathos. 

C.  W.  C.  als  deutsche  Hoehschule. 

Das   Theologische    Seminar. 

Central    Wesleyan    Influence. 


Donors  and  Patrons. 

The    Semi-Centennial    Campaign. 

Departed  Leaders. 

Rev.    Philip    Kuhl. 

Dr.    H.   A.    Koch. 

Rev.  John   Schlagenhauf. 

Rev.    Rudolph    Havighorst. 

Dr.   J.    L.    Kessler. 

Dr.    Geo.     B.    Addicks. 


Central  Wesleyan  College  of  To-day 


Central   Wesleyan   of  the   Present. 
Board  of  Trustees. 
Committees    and    Officers. 


The    Faculty. 

Officers   of  the   Faculty. 

Summary   of   Students. 


Fiftieth  Anniversary  Celebration 


Program    of    Commencement    and 

Anniversary    Exercises. 
The   College   and   the   Community. 
The   Place  of  the  Church  College. 
Institutions    Sending    Greetings. 


Institutions  Represented  by 

Delegates. 

Various  Organizations  repre- 
sented. 

Official  Boards  and  Papers  Send- 
ing   Greetings. 


VIEWS  NEAR  WARRENTON 

Geology  Class 

Big  Charrette 
Canyon,  Big  Charrette  Lunch  Time 


Devil's  Den 


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Historical  Statement 


By  O    E.  Kriege. 

riSEI  HE  month  of  June  1914  will  complete  fifty  years  of  uninterrupt- 
L^fcJ  ed  service  for  the  educational  institution  at  Warrenton,  Mo., 
Km|R»l  and  sixty  years  of  service  if  the  career  of  its  fore-runner  in 
"  JH3L'       Quincy,    Illinois,    be    included. 

The  beginnings  of  these  schools  of  learning  date  back  to 
1852  when  a  company  of  German  Methodist  ministers  met  in  Winches- 
ter, 111.,  and  determined  to  form  a  German  American  college  in  order  to 
establish  better  educational  advantages  for  their  children  and  to  rear 
an  educated  ministry.  This  plan,  however,  was  abandoned  and  in  1854 
these  German  ministers  united  with  their  English  brethren  in  founding 
the  "English  and  German  College"  in  Quincy,  Illinois.  For  nine  years 
the  school  struggled  with  financial  and  other  difficulties  and  finally  the 
English  department  succumbed.  Through  the  indomitable  energy  of 
Rev.  H.  A.  Koch  the  German  Department  maintained  itself  until  June 
1864.  No  records  of  these  first  ten  years  of  educational  work  of  German 
Methodists  are  extant  though  they  must  have  been  very  fruitful  years 
as  many  German  Methodist  ministers  received  their  training  in  the 
Quincy  School.  Rev.  John  Walther  was  the  first  principal  and  Prof. 
J.  M.  Eull  taught  for  several  years,  but  the  soul  of  the  school  was  the 
Rev.  Hermann  A.  Koch. 

After  the  dissolution  of  the  English  college  it  became  necessary  to 
devise  plans  for  the  German  department  if  it  was  not  to  perish.  The 
new  burden  imposed  upon  the  church  by  the  ravages  of  the  Civil  war, 
that  of  caring  for  children  whose  fathers  had  been  slain  on  the  battle- 
field, suggested  a  feasable  plan  to  the  church.  At  a  convention  of 
German  Methodist  ministers  and  laymen  in  Quincy,  Illinois,  in  March 
1864  it  was  decided  to  found  the  "Western  Orphan  Asylum  and  Educa- 
tional Institute"  in  Warrenton,  Mo.,  in  the  heart  of  a  German  com- 
munity. The  Truesdale  estate  in  Warrenton,  consisting  of  932  acres, 
was  purchased  May  19,  1864,  for  $15,000.  The  funds  were  raised  after- 
wards by  collections.  The  property  was  deeded  to  an  independent  cor- 
poration consisting  of  Philip  Kuhl,  George  Boeshenz,  George  Cramp, 
Henry  Borgman,  Herman  Schaper,  Friedrich  Drunert,  Peter  Hausam, 
Friedrich  Niedringhaus  and  John  Sutter,  all  of  the  State  of  Missouri; 
Andrew  Eisenmayer,  Peter  Hinners,  Henry  F.  Koeneke,  of  Illinois, 
Constantin  Steinley  of  Kansas,  Henry  Fiegenbaum  of  Iowa  and  Henry 
Roth  of  Minnesota. 

After  the  organization  of  the  Southwest  German  Conference  in 
Saint  Louis,  Mo.,  September  29,  1864,  the  above  men  transferred  their 
rights  to  the  estate  to  the  conference  and  were  elected  as  the  first 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  new  institution.  Rev.  Phillip  Kuhl  was  elect- 
ed President  of  the  corporation,  Rev.  George  Boeshenz,  Superintendent 
of  the  Orphan  Asylum,  and  Rev.  H.  A.  Koch  Principal  of  the  Education- 
al Institute. 


The  Truesdale  estate  comprised  the  greater  part  of  what  is  now 
Warrenton  and  Truesdale.  The  large  plantation  house  was  used  for 
the  new  institution,  and  a  two  story  frame  building  28x60  was  erected 
for  school  purposes.  The  "Institute"  was  opened  October  3,  1864.  A 
charter  was  granted  by  the  Legislature  in  February  1865.  The  attend- 
ance the  first  year  was  179  which  included  many  of  the  51  orphan 
children,  received  into  the  Asylum.  Besides  three-year  classical  and 
scientific  courses  the  school  provided  a  Normal,  a  Commercial  and  a 
Primary  department.  Rev.  H.  A.  Koch,  the  Principal  was  Professor  of 
German  Language  and  Literature.  Prof.  Van  Dusen  and  four  others 
were  assistants.  The  Educational  Institute  rapidly  grew  in  importance. 
The  "Depot"  and  the  "Red  Building"  had  been  moved  on  the  campus 
from  Truesdale  and  added  to  the  college  group.  The  courses  of  study 
were  extended.  In  March  1870  the  name  of  the  corporation  was  legally 
changed  to  "Central  Wesleyan  College  and  Orphan  Asylum. '  The  first 
class  was  graduated  in  1870,  Wm.  Balcke  of  Davenport,  la.,    and    John 


Ladies'  Home  College  Building  Jubilee  Chapel 

Idealized  Grouping  of  Buildings.    Only  the  College  Building  Remains. 


H.  Frick  of  Liberty,  Mo.,  receiving  A.B.  degrees.  In  1872  Rev.  Phillip 
Kuhl  resigned  as  president  of  the  dual  institution  and  Dr.  H.  A.  Koch 
was  elected  to  succeed  him. 

A  new  and  better  college  building  now  became  the  crying  need. 
Through  the  efforts  of  Rev.  Phillip  Kuhl  and  Rev.  J.  R.  Wilhelmi 
$10,500  were  secured  for  this  purpose  in  Warren  County,  and  Dr.  Koch 
and  Rev.  M.  Roeder  collected  enough  more  in  the  patronizing  Confer- 
ence to  erect  a  three  story  brick  building  at  a  cost  of  $20,000.  It  was 
dedicated  November  14,  1875.  The  building  still  in  use,  contained  a 
chapel  for  the  local  congregation  in  addition  to  a  number  of  recitation 
rooms.  The  old  frame  college  building,  familiarly  known  as  the 
"Green  Building"  was  converted  into  a  Ladies'  Dormitory.  About  this 
time  the  Orphan  Asylum  engaged  a  teacher  for  the  Orphan  children  and 
the  Primary  Department  was  discontinued  by  the  College. 

The  endowment  of  the  College  was  begun  in  1875  when  Mr.  Louis 
Kessler  of  Ballwin,  Mo.,  gave  the  sum  of  $10,000  upon  the  condition 
that  an  additional  sum  of  $15,000  be  raised  by  others.  The  financial 
agent   Rev.   M.   Roeder,  followed  in   1877  by  Rev.  Charles  Heidel,  sue- 


ceeded  in  raising  the  required  sum.  The  largest  contribution,  $6,000, 
was  made  by  Mr.  W.  Schrader  of  St.  Louis  and  in  his  honor  the  fund 
thus  collected  was  named  "Schrader  Chair  of  Theology."  Mr  Kessler's 
gift  founded  the  "Kessler  Chair  of  German  Language  and  Literature." 

At  midnight  May  8,  1882,  a  tornado  burst  upon  Warrenton  and 
almost  laid  the  college  buildings  in  ruins*.  But  the  school  went  on 
without  interruption  and  not  a  student  left  on  account  of  the  calamity. 
The  professors  and  the  pastor,  Rev.  Wm.  Schutz,  solicited  contributions 
from  friends  far  and  near  and  the  amount  needed  to  repair  the  damages, 
$6,000,  was  soon  secured.  About  this  time  a  three  room  cottage  was 
erected  to  be  used  as  a  students'  home  or  as  a  hospital  in  case  of 
an  emergency.  Further  gifts  were  received  for  the  endowment  fund 
from  Mary  Wehmer,  John  Niebuhr,  the  Niedringhaus  Brothers,  and 
others,  so  that  in  1881  the  productive  funds  of  the  college  amounted  to 
$33,000. 

For  twenty  years  the  school  and  the  Orphan  Asylum  had  continued 
as  a  dual  institution  managed  by  one  Board  of  Trustees.  It  now  seemed 
mutually  advantageous  to  separate  the  College  from  the  Asylum.  This 
separation  was  legally  accomplished  in  June  1884  after  an  equitable 
division  of  property  had  been  made.  The  official  title  of  the  college, 
as  given  in  the  new  charter,  was  "Central  Wesleyan  College"  and  of 
the  Asylum  "Central  Wesleyan   Orphan   Home." 

Since  then  each  institution  has  carried  on  its  special  work  under  its 
own  Board  of  Trustees  and  in  its  own  plant.  A  beautiful  new  Ladies' 
Home  with  a  dining  room  capacity  for  125  was  erected  in  1884  at  a 
cost  of  $12,000  and  the  "Green  Building"  was  transformed  into  a  boys' 
dormitory.  At  this  time  Messrs  F.  G.  and  W.  F.  Niedringhaus  founded 
the  "Niedringhaus  Chair  of  Historical  and  Practical  Theology"  byi  a  gift 
of  $15,000.  In  1886  a  beautiful  brick  church  known  as  "Jubilee  Chapel" 
was  erected,  the  funds  having  been  collected  in  the  patronizing  Confer- 
ences. The  large  room  in  the  college  building  vacated  by  the  congrega- 
tion was  converted  into  class  rooms.  In  June  1889  the  college  celebrat- 
ed its  25th  anniversary  and  the  alumni  and  Trustee  Board  decided  to 
raise  a  jubilee  fund  of  $25,000  for  endowment  purposes.  Prof.  Kessler 
was  relieved  of  class  room  work  and  after  several  years  succeeded  in 
collecting  this  sum,  thus  bringing  the  funds  of  the  college  up  to  $70,000. 

During  commencement  in  1893  the  beautiful  Ladies'  Home  was 
destroyed  by  fire  and  an  even  greater  calamity  befell  the  school  in  the 
tragic  death  of  Dr.  J.  L.  Kessler,  who  was  injured  during  the  fire  and 
died  a  few  days  later.  The  destruction  of  the  Ladies'  Home  marks  an 
epoch  in  the  history  of  the  College.  Within  a  few  years  a  group  of 
new  pressed  brick  college  buildings  replaced  the  frame  structures  of  for- 
mer days.  The  present  plant  consists  of  the  following  buildings  in  the 
order   of   their   erection,    all   of   brick    and   harmonious   in    style: 

1.  The  Main  College  Building  erected  in  1874  but  remodeled  in 
more  recent  years. 

2.  Kessler  Hall  erected  in  1893  and  named  in  honor  of  the  beloved 
Dr.  J.  L.  Kessler.  Here  are  located  the  Chapel  and  the  departments  of 
music  and  art.     Rev.  Chas    Heidel  and  Prof.  Geo    B.  Addicks  collected 


the  funds  necessary  for  the  erection  of  Kessler  Memorial  Hall  and  the 
new  Ladies'  Home,  two  modern  brick  buildings  costing  $26,000. 

3.  The  Ladies'  Home  erected  in  1893  was  remodeled  in  1910.  It 
contains  rooms  for  fifty  ladies  and  a  dining  room  seating  150  persons 

4.  Andrew  Eisenmayer  Hall,  a  three  story  dormitory  for  men 
erected  in  1900.  The  funds  were  secured  by  President  Addicks,  Rev.  J. 
F.  Froeschle,  the  Field  Agent,  and  others,  the  largest  gift  coming  from 
the  family  of  Andrew  Eisenmayer.  After  the  completion  of  this  build- 
ing the  old  "Green  Building"  was  torn  down  and  removed  and  the 
"Red   Building"  was  transformed  into  a  Gymnasium. 

5.  Niedringhaus  Memorial  Hall,  a  Science  Hall  and  Gymnasium. 
The  building  which  cost  $20,000,  was  opened  in  May  1909.  It  replaced 
the  "Red  Building"  destroyed  by  fire  in  1908.  It  is  named  in  honor  of 
Mr.  W.  F.  Niedringhaus  who  bequeathed  $10,000  for  this  purpose. 

6.  The  Annex,  a  very  important  adjunct  to  the  Ladies'  Home,  was 
erected  in  1910  at  a  cost  of  $8,000.  It  contains  the  laundry  and  pro- 
vision rooms  and  eight  living  rooms. 


The  Ladies'  Home 


The  Green  Building 


7.  The  Steam  Heating  Plant  originally  erected  in  1900  was  rebuilt 
during  the  fall  of  1912  at  an  expense  of  $10,000. 

8.  The  New  College  Church  dedicated  April  20,  1913,  replaced  the 
"Jubilee  Chapel"  built  in  1887.  It  is  used  by  the  College  for  lectures, 
concerts,  and  Commencement  exercises  and  contains  the  pipe  organ 
owned  jointly  by  the  College  and  Congregation.  All  these  buildings  are 
conveniently  grouped  in  the  heart  of  Warrenton,  on  either  side  of  the 
historic  Boone's  Lick  Road.  The  campus  of  twenty-three  acres  con- 
tains beautiful  shade  trees  and  ample  playgrounds  for  the  students. 

The  personnel  of  the  faculty  has  likewise  seen  important  changes 
within  the  last  two  decades.  Dr.  J.  L.  Kessler,  energetic  and  optimistic, 
beloved  by  all,  met  his  tragic  death  in  1893.  He  was  succeeded  by  Dr. 
J.  L.  Nuelsen,  who  labored  here  with  marked  success  for  five  years, 
when  he  was  transferred  to  Berea  and  later  to  the  Episcopacy.  Dr.  H. 
A.  Koch,  after  forty  years  of  unremitting  toil  in  the  interest  of  educa- 


tion,  resigned  the  presidency  in  1895,  and  a  year  later  in  broken  health 
he  retired  to  private  life.  He  died  in  1897.  His  memory  is  revered  by 
multitudes  of  former  students  far  and  near.  Dr.  Geo.  B.  Addicks, 
elected  a  professor  in  1890,  and  president  in  1895,  in  touch  with  modern 
times,  introduced  Central  Wesleyan  College  to  ever  widening  circles. 
His  death  in  1910  removed  a  man  of  unusual  culture  of  mind  and  heart 
from  among  us.  Since  the  founding  of  the  school  there  have  been  218 
Professors  and  Assistants  on  the  teaching  staff,  the  number  varying 
from  5  the  first  year  to  28  at  the  present  time.  The  attendance  has 
increased  from  179  in  i864-'65  to  358  in  I9i3-'i4. 

Other  changes  of  no  less  significance  have  taken  place  in  recent 
years.  They  are  of  an  intensive  rather  than  of  an  extensive  nature. 
Recitation  periods  were  lengthened  from  45  to  60  minutes.  Permanent 
records  were  adopted.  The  semester  division  was  introduced.  The 
academy  course  was  lengthened  to  four  years.  Graduation  from  the 
Academy  now  requires  16  units;  from  the  College  128  semester  hours. 
The  number  of  elective  studies  was  increased  and  the  grouping  of 
studies  by  majors  adopted.  An  approved  Summer  School  was  establish- 
ed, largely  through  the  efforts  of  Prof.  Vosholl,  which  has  constantly 
grown  in  usefulness.  In  1910  the  College  was  elected  to  membership  in 
the  Missouri  College  Union.  It  is  also  ranked  as  a  "Class  A"  college 
by  the  University  Senate  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  which 
indicates  its  rank  among  the  colleges  of  the  Church  and  State.  In  1912 
Central  Wesleyan  was  admitted  to  the  Intercollegiate  Oratorical  Asso- 
ciation and  in  1913  to  the  Missouri  Valley  Athletic  Association. 

The  certificate  privilege  which  was  conferred  on  the  College  in  1912 
means  much  to  graduates  of  Central  Wesleyan  for  they  may  secure 
life  certificates  without  examination  and  many  States  accept  these  cer- 
tificates without  question.  The  library  and  laboratories  have  received 
fine  additions  and  have  become  the  workshops  of  busy  students.  The 
growing  importance  of  the  Alumni  was  recognized  by  the  revised  char- 
ter of  1913,  which  permits  the  Alumni  to  elect  three  members 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  The  union  with  the  German  College  of  Mt. 
Pleasant,  Iowa,  which  was  consummated  in  June  1909  unified  and  accen- 
tuated  the   educational   interests   of   the   connection. 

Most  recent  additions  to  the 
funds  of  the  school  are  the  Addison 
H.  Brown  scholarship  of  $5,ooo,  the 
Ammann  Fund  of  $15,000,  and  a  be- 
quest of  $4,000  from  the  estate  of 
Mrs.  Addison  H.  Brown.  The  semi- 
centennial campaign  for  $150,000  is 
well  under  way  and  bids  fair  to 
reach  the  goal  by  January  1,  1916. 
Most  noteworthy  was  the  response 
of  the  college  community  and  the 
citizens  of  Warrenton.  who  to- 
gether subscribed  $25,000  for  a 
"Greater  Home  College."  A  gift  of 
$10,000  from  the  heirs  of  Mr.  Henry  Block  of  Peoria,  111.,  was  received 
just  recently. 


Gymnasium  (Old  Red  Building) 


Quincy  Days. 

By  J.  H.  Frick. 

HE  German  Educational  work  in  the  west  had  its  beginning 
in  the  English  and  German  College  at  Quincy,  Illinois.  Rev 
Jesse  Hale  Moore  was  the  President.  The  faculty  consisted 
of  four  professors  and  three  assistants.  In  1854  school  open- 
ed in  the  basement  of  the  Vernon  Street  M.  E.  Church. 
Wm.  Koeneke  and  J.  A.  Reitz  were  the  first  students  matriculated.  Rev. 
John  Walther  was  Professor  of  Theology  and  Mr.  Marks  Professor 
of  German.  The  German  classes  met  in  the  basement  of  the  the  Ger- 
man M.  E.  Church,  on  Jersey  Street.  Later  Prof.  Marks  was  succeed- 
ed by  Prof.  Bandele,  and  he  by  Prof.  Blaufusz;  John  Schlagenhauf  and 
J.  P.  Miller  were  college  janitors.  Rev.  J.  R.  Jaquess,  D.D.,  succeeded 
Dr.  Moore  in  the  Presidency;  and  both  these  men  later  became  gen- 
erals in  the  Union  army.  Rev.  Walther,  for  the  second  year,  made 
arrangements  to  give  free  board  tc  the  German  theologs — that  is  they 
were  to  board  round  from  house  to  house.  This  arrangement  did  not 
appeal  to  Koeneke,  the  Ex-Secretary  of  Governor  Bissel,  and  he  had  a 
talk  with  President  Jaquess  who  appointed  him  collector  of  tuition 
and  thus  gave  him  a  chance  to  earn  his  board  and  room  rent.  When  in 
1857  Dr.  H.  A.  Koch  was  appointed  head  of  the  German  Department, 
he  kept  a  boarding  department,  in  connection  with  his  family,  one  mile 
out  of  town.  They  carried  their  noon  lunch  to  school  by  turns,  in  a 
big  basket.  Each  student  had  to  work  one  hour  a  day  in  the  garden  or 
around  the  premises.  They  say  the  Doctor  made  them  put  in  full 
time  too.  Once  they  left  two  rows  of  potatoes  implanted  to  go  to  see 
a  regiment  of  soldiers  mustered  in,  and  for  this  neglect  they  had  to 
suffer  in  the  classroom.  They  slept  in  a  large  room  in  hammocks  in 
three  tiers,  one  above  another.  One  student  boasted  that  he  could 
speak  three  languages, — English,  German,  and  Low  German.  So  they 
dubbed  him  "Doctor  B."  Another  played  the  role  of  a  very  superior 
person  until  worsted  in  a  debate  by  Wm.  Wilkening  from  the  back- 
woods of  Missouri.  The  question  was:  "Resolved  that  Martin  Luther 
was  a  greater  man  than  John  Wesley."  Wilkening  had  the  affirmative 
and  says  he  studied  as  he  never  studied  before  in  order  to  win  over 
his  high-toned  antagonist.  When  Rev.  Walther  afterwards  became 
Presiding  Elder,  he  culled  the  school  of  its  more  advanced  students 
when  he  needed  men  for  his  appointments.  Dr.  Koch  remonstrated 
with  him  for  taking  away  the  young  men  before  graduation.  He  replied — 
"Hermann,  I  tell  you,  when  God  wants  a  man  for  his  work,  he  gets 
him,  even  it  he  has  to  snatch  him  from  the  gallows." 

After  the  erection  of  a  college  building,  the  English  and  German 
College  bid  fair  to  prove  a  success,  and  who  can  say  it  was  not  a  suc- 
cess? The  following  ministers,  later  in  the  German  conferences, 
received  their  training  at  Quincy:  Wm.  Koeneke,  Chas.  Heidel,  J.  A. 
Reitz,  John  Schlagenhauf,  Jacob  Tanner,  J.  P.  Miller,  Rev.  Schatz,  Rev. 


Koelle,  P.  J.  May,  M.  Dewein,  John  Baumgarten,  J.  R.  Irmscher,  H. 
Flottmann,  C.  W.  Floreth,  George  Enzeroth,  H.  Naumann,  Wm. 
Schwind,  John  Sandmeyer,  Fred  Unland,  Wm.  Wilkening,  H.  Schutz  and 
others.  Hon.  H.  A.  S'choppenhorst  and  Aug.  H.  Bothe  were  students 
from  Warren  County,  Missouri. 

But  the  Civil  War  brought  on  a  sea  of  financial  difficulties  for  the 
dual  college.  The  English  Department  closed  in  1863,  and  the  German 
school  was  transferred   to  Warrenton,   Missouri,  in   1864. 


Rev.  Philip  Kuhl  Dr.  H.  A.  Koch 

First  President  of  the  Corporation  First  Principal  and  President 


War  Times 

By  J.  H.  Frick. 

HE  Civil  War  was  still  in  progress  when  The  Western  Edu- 
cational Institute  opened  in  Warrenton,  Missouri,  October  3, 
1864.  It  was  about  this  time  when  "Old  Pap  Price"  made 
his  last  raid  into  the  state.  Guerillas  who  were  spreading 
consternation  in  the  counties  north  of  the  river,  burned  the 
Court  House  at  Danville  in  Montgomery  county.  Our  students  were 
often  called  out  with  the  citizens  to  help  guard  the  town.  It  is  told  of 
one  student  that  while  on  guard  he  became  alarmed  and  cocked  his 
musket,  but  finding  no  occasion  to  shoot,  he  had  to  call  on  another 
guard  to  help  him  let  down  the  hammer  of  his  gun. 

One  day  a  party  of  union  troops  came  into  Warrenton  and  scattered 
about  to  get  something  to  eat.  They  thought  the  group  of  buildings 
just  east  of  town  a  good  place  to  get  some  "grub."  They  found  the 
kitchen  of  the  College  Boarding  Department  and  began  ordering  the 
cooks  to  get   them   something  to  eat  and  "be   quick  about  it."     Prof. 


Van  Dusen  came  to  the  rescue — "What  do  you  want?"  he  said.  "This  is 
no  nigger  plantation;  This  is  an  Orphan  Asylum!  Get  out!"  They  got. 

Soon  after  the  opening  of  school  Christ  Hildebrandt,  a  patriotic 
student  from  Freeport,  111.,  procured  tall  sycamore  poles  from  the 
Charrette  bottoms,  spliced  them  together  for  a  flag  pole  and  from  the 
top  flung  "Old  Glory"  to  the  breeze.  This  is  said  to  have  been  the  first 
time  the  flag  of  our  country  was  displayed  on  the  College  Campus. 

Love  of  country  and  love  of  the  Stars  and  Stripes  has  ever  been 
one  of  the  strong  characteristics  of  the  students  of  Central  Wesleyan 
College.  So  may  it  ever  be,  and  as  the  years  roll  on,  may  their  actions 
tend  to  keep  our  country  in  righteous  paths  and  her  flag  a  harbinger 
of  peace  and  good  will  to  all  the  world. 

The  war  occasionally  produced  a  little  ripple.  One  day  Dr.  Koch 
and  some  students  were  coming  up  from  St.  Louis,  it  is  said,  when  the 
engineer  and  train  crew  became  alarmed  and  stopped  the  train  before 
reaching  Warrenton,  leaving  the  passengers  to  foot  it  the  rest  of  the 
way.     The  report  says  nothing  as  to  the  distance  they  walked. 

A  number  of  the  students  had  been  Union  soldiers,  and  continued  to 
wear  their  uniforms  while  attending  college.  Some  wore  an  empty 
sleeve  or  showed  in  other  ways  their  maimed  condition.  Joe  Burger 
was  one  of  these  and  could  tell  the  boys  war  stories  till  their  hair 
fairly  stood  on  end.  Lieutenant  Hummel,  who  had  lost  a  leg,  lived  in 
Truesdale.  Captain  Grenzenberg,  now  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  spent  a  part 
of  a  school  year  with  us  and  occupied  a  room  in  the  old  Red  Building. 
After  the  Confederates  had  been  defeated  at  Westport,  now  Kansas 
City,  two  brigades  of  General  A.  J.  Smith's  army  passed  through  War- 
renton, and  camped  in  Truesdale  over  night,  on  their  way  to  Nashville, 
Tenn.  One  of  these  soldiers  was  Theodore  Reuter,  now  one  of  our 
Trustees,  and  Mary  Huegely,  who  afterwards  became  his  wife,  was 
attending  college  at  the  time  and  saw  the  troops  marching  by. 

At  one  time  several  of  our  patrons,  Samuel  Weber,Henry  Weberjohn 
Irminger  and  J.  H.  Frick,  after  being  captured  at  the  battle  of  Glasgow, 
Missouri,  were  on  a  train  which  stopped  at  Truesdale  for  breakfast,  while 
returning  home  as  paroled  prisoners.  J.  H.  Frick  heard  his  comrade 
remark  something  about  "Unsere  Anstalt"  being  located  here,  but  little 
did  he  dream  that  this  "Anstalt"  was  destined  to  become  his  "Alma 
Mater"  and  that  he  would  here  find  his  life's  work. 


Prof.  John  H.  Frick  Rev.  William  Balcke 

THE  FIRST  TWO  GRADUATES 


Mount  Pleasant  Days 


By  Friedrich  Munz. 

OST  of  our  German  conferences  have  rejoiced  in  the  posses- 
sion of  only  one  educational  institution;  the  Saint  Louis 
Conference  however,  had  for  many  years  the  burden  of  two. 
But  no  man  can  force  Providence,  and  our  fathers,  who  in 
1872  were  the  founders  of  the  German  College  in  Mount 
Pleasant,  Iowa,  no  doubt  followed  the  divine  leading.  Mt.  Pleasant — 
what  a  beautiful  name!  In  reality  there  was  no  "mount"  in  the 
immediate  vicinity,  but  the  town  in  itself  was  what  the  name  suggested 
— "pleasant"  and  attractive.  Long  before  the  Civil  War,  Iowa  Wes- 
leyan  had  been  in  existence,  and  its  influence  could  be  felt  and  seen 
in  the  whole  life  of  the  growing  community.  Dollars  and  sense  do  not 
always  travel  together;  but  sometimes  they  do,  and  never  more  than 
when  the  combination  meets  in  the  founding  and  upbuilding  of  a  col- 
lege or  university.  It  was  thought  a  capital  idea,  as  the  German 
Church  would  always  be  more  or  less  a  missionary  enterprise,  to  unite 
the  German  College  with  the  comparatively  strong  American  institu- 
tion. The  men  who  carried  the  burden  of  those  years  were  Rev. 
Rudolph  Havighorst,  Rev.  Henry  Schutz,  Hon.  D.  C.  Smith,  for  many 
years  the  President  of  the  Trustee  board,  and  G.  W.  Marquardt,  who 
was  the  faithful  treasurer  from  1873  to  1908. 

If  there  is  a  divinity  that  shapes  our  ends,  then  it  watches  not  only 
over  the  chattering,  clamoring,  fighting  sparrow  but  also  over  the 
friendless,  helpless  young  German  student.  Fortunate  winds  must  have 
filled  the  sails  of  my  ship  when  it  landed  me  on  the  banks  of  the 
Mississippi  in  the  beautiful  state  of  Iowa.  "De  size  ob  de  gravestone 
doan  tell  how  big  de  man  was."     Rev.  Henry  Naumann,  the  presiding 


elder  at  the  time,  was  one  of  those  few  who  have  a  great  heart  in 
y  magnificent  body.  He  alwa>s  had  an  eye  for  young  men,  and  before 
I  knew  what  was  happening  I  was  on  my  way  to  German  College  in 
Mt.  Pleasant.  The  school  was  then  no  doubt  at  the  height  of  its 
development.  Rev.  William  Balcke,  A.M.,  was  at  the  head  of  the  insti- 
tution. Dr.  E.  C.  Magaret,  the  poet  laureate  of  German  Methodism, 
was  the  master  in  German  literature.  Young,  magnetic,  polished,  Geo. 
B.  Addicks,  always  a  friend  of  young  people,  was  laying  the  foundation 
for  his  lifelong  work  as  an  educator,  John  L.  Tiemann,  who  died  appar- 
ently too  young,  was  our  fine  musician,  and  happy  were  the  many 
hours  that  we  spent  together.  Students  gathered  from  far  Minnesota, 
from  the  Sunflower  State  and  from  the  quiet  hills  of  Missouri;  Metho- 
dists and  Mennonites,  boys  and  girls  in  the  bloom  of  youth,  who  are 
now  doing  their  share  of  the  world's  work  in  all  walks  of  life.  There 
was  more  study  than  play  in  those  times.  We  took  not  only  a  mouth- 
ful of  education,  but  a  square  meal.  When  one  of  us  went  through  col- 
lege, the  college  had  been  through  him.  We  cannot  sing  of  "The  old 
caken  bucket,  the  iron-bound  bucket,  the  moss  covered  bucket," 
because-  there  was  no  bucket,  but  not  one  of  us  will  forget  the  famous 
college-pump,  old  fashioned,  but  always  overflowing  with  the  purest 
crystal  water.  We  still  see  in  imagination  how  the  door  of  the  stately 
mansion  opened  exactly  at  the  same  minute  every  day  and  through  the 
garden  gate  stepped  grey-bearded  Senator  Harlan,  the  war-minister  of 
Lincoln's  cabinet,  carrying  the  inseparable  umbrella  under  his  arm. 
But  times  move,  and  so  do  men.  Dr.  Schlagenhauf  gave  his  time  and 
energy  to  the  College  from  1885  to  1891.  The  dignified  Dr.  George  A. 
Mulfinger  followed  him.  It  fell  to  the  lot  of  the  writer  to  steer  the 
school  through  the  hard  times  of  1893  to  1897.  In  spite  of  the  financial 
depression  there  was  always  more  than  enough  in  the  treasury.  Rev. 
E.  Schuette  with  one  year  was  followed  by  Dr.  Edwin  Havighorst,  who 
held  the  reins  till  1908.  Dr.  H.  G.  Leist  continued  until  1909. 

A  school  must  not  be  judged  solely  by  imposing  buildings  or  a 
splendid  endowment;  its  real  strength  is  the  teaching  force.  There  is 
no  doubt  that  men  like  the  efficient  W.  G.  Baab,  the  prolific  and  fluent 
Karl  Stiefel,  the  energetic  and  many-sided  Gustav  Becker,  the  practical, 
scholarly  H.  G.  Leist  ranked  among  the  foremost  in  our  whole  German 
work.  It  is  true  the  College  itself  could  never  boast  of  large  numbers 
in  the  enrollment  of  students,  but  it  always  did  more  work  than  its 
official  catalogue  reported.  We  instructed  the  students  of  two  institutions. 
Our  boys  and  girls  enjoyed  free  of  charge  all  the  privileges  of  the  effi- 
cient staff  and  extensive  plant  of  Iowa  Wesleyan.  Our  endowment, 
somewhat  over  $30,000,  was  sufficient  to  carry  on  the  work;  but  the 
Conference  had  the  conviction,  that  one  school  was  enough  and  the  time 
came  for  a  happy  union.  No  one  will  find  fault  with  us,  who  think  with 
grateful  hearts  of  the  good  old  days  of  Mount  Pleasant.  The  golden 
age  never  leaves  the  world;  it  still  exists  and  shall  exist,  till  love,  health, 
and  poetry  are  no  more, — but  only  for  the  young. 


GEO.  B.  ADDICKS,  D.D. 

Second  President  of  the  College. 
For  many  years  a  tireless  worker 
for  the  school. 


JOHN  L.  KESSLER,  Ph.D. 

who  died  from  injuries  received  at 
the  burning  of  the  Ladies'  Home 
in  June,  1893. 


Fires  and  Tornado 


By  J.  H.  Frick. 

UR  school  has  been  tried  by  fire  and  tornado  and  each  time 
it  has  risen  Phoenix  like  out  of  the  wreck  of  ashes,  stronger 
and  better  than  before. 

On  the  night  of  May  8,  1882,  while  all  lay  in  peaceful 
slumber,  a  tornado  burst  upon  the  college  buildings  and  cam- 
pus and  left  a  wreck  in  its  path.  The  lives  of  Prof.  Sauer  and  family 
and  four  students,  one  of  whom,  Rev  Aug  Buelteman,  is  now  our  pas- 
tor, were  mercifully  spared.  The  Professors  and  Rev.  Wm.  Schutz  went 
out  among  the  people  who  willingly  contributed  $6,000.00  to  repair  the 
damage  done. 

During  the  commencement  of  1893  while  the  valedictorean  was  de- 
livering his  oration,  the  cry  of  Fire!  Fire!  put  a  sudden  termination  to 
the  exercises'  as  all  rushed  out  to  find  the  beautiful  Ladies'  Home  in 
flames.  All  efforts  to  save  the  building  failed,  and  saddest  of  all,  our 
beloved  Prof.  J.  L.  Kessler,  while  fighting  the  fire,  received  injuries 
which  resulted  in  death  by  tetanus  nine  days  afterwards.  In  place  of 
this  building  two  others,  more  substantial,  were  erected.  But  the  loss 
of  Dr.  Kessler,  we  all  felt,  could  never  be  replaced.  But  his  influence, 
for  the  school  he  loved,  is  still  bearing  fruit  in  the  lives  of  his  students. 
One  by  one  the  old  buildings  after  they  had  well  served  their  pur- 
pose were  torn  down  or  removed.  The  old  Orphan  Asylum,  the  Green 
Building,  the  Little  Red  Depot,  which  served  as  the  President's  resi- 
dence, all  disappeared  and  in  1908  only  the  "Red  Building"  which  had 
served  as  a  chapel,  school  rooms,  students'  rooms  and  gymnasium  was 
left  as  a  lone  reminder  of  the  early  days.  Again  the  cry  of  fire  alarmed 
the  community  and  in  a  short  time  the  "Red  Building"  was  a  glowing 
heap  of  ashes.  In  its  stead  the  stately  "Niedringhaus  Memorial  Build- 
ing" now  serves  as  a  Gymnasium,  Museum,  Science  room,  and  Labora- 
tories. A  loyal  constituency  each  time  helped  turn  the  calamity  into  a 
blessing  and  give  the  school  new  facilities. 


THE  COLLEGE  BUILDING— after  t!  e  Tcrnado  of  May  8,  1882 


RUINS  OF  THE  LADIES'  HOME— after  the  Fire  in  June,  1893 


Humor  and  Pathos 

By  J.   H.   Frick. 

OLLEGE  life  has  its  humor  and  its  pathos,  its  lights  and  its 
shadows.  Many  of  the  boys  and  girls,  when  they  first  enter 
college,  have  seen  but  little  of  the  world  and  are  easily  impos- 
ed upon.  It  so  happened  that  Louis  E.,  a  verdant  youth 
from  the  backwoods  of  Missouri,  was  made  game  of  by  some  of  the 
smart  Alecs.  He  bore  their  gibes  patiently  for  a  time,  but  when  patience 
had  ceased  to  be  a  virtue,  he  asked  the  advice  of  Prof.  R.  "If  they  don't 
let  you  alone,  thrash  them,"  said  the  professor.  "Do  you  think  that  will 
help?"  asked  the  verdant  Louis,  while  a  look  of  relief  and  quiet  de- 
termination shone  from  his  eyes.  During  chapel  the  next  morning 
there  was  the  usual  annoyance  by  one  of  his  tormentors  who  sat  behind 
him.  But  immediately  after  chapel  things  took  a  sudden  turn.  In  front 
of  the  college  door  Louis  had  a  frightened  youth  by  the  throat,  and 
his  fist  came  into  play  with  a  "By  golly"  to  give  it  vim  and  an  encour- 
aging "Give  it  to  him"  from  a  couple  of  teachers.  A  thorough  cure  was 
effected. 

In  the  Preparatory  Department  when  Prof.  F.  undertook  to  correct 
a  refractory  Truesdale  lad,  said  lad  bolted  from  the  room  and  went  fly- 
ing down  the  street.  The  teacher  went  after  laddie,  his  long  linen  coat 
flying  in  the  wind,  overhauled  the  boy,  and  brought  him  back  amid  the 
shouts  of  students  who  witnessed  the  race. 

While  the  Goethenia  Literary  Society  held  its  meetings  in  the  chapel 
of  the  Old  Red  Building,  the  members  were  some-times  annoyed  by 
youngsters  throwing  rocks  against  the  door.  J.  H.  Hilmes  and  another 
gave  chase  one  night,  caught  the  culprit  in  the  railroad  cut;  and  brought 
him  back  a  prisoner,  and  compelled  him  to  remain  a  quiet  spectator  of 
the  debate  then  in  progress. 

Occasionally  in  our  dormitories  things  disappeared.  At  such  times 
a  watch  was  set  and  when  the  erring  one  was  caught  a  trial  was  organ- 
ized by  the  students.  A  judge,  jury,  attorneys,  and  sheriff  were  select- 
ed. The  accused  was  confronted  by  the  witnesses  and  duly  tried.  Often 
the  chief  actors  in  such  a  trial  became  attorneys  and  judges  in  after 
life,  some  eminent  in  the  pulpit  and  on  the  platform.  But  when  an 
erring  student  has  to  be  returned  to  his  home  by  the  Faculty  their 
hearts  bleed  for  parents  and  friends  of  the  one  under  the  shadow.  But 
their  hearts  are  gladdened  by  young  men  who  are  doing  their  best  to 
hold  the  student  body  to  a  high  standard  of  truth,  honesty,  and  moral- 
ity. Such  students  have  a  fine  missionary  field  among  the  more 
thoughtless  and  careless  of  their  fellows,  to  do  telling  work  for  the 
Master,  and  need  not  wait  till  after  graduation  to  do  great  things  in 
life's  busy  battle  for  right  and  righteousness. 

Our  telescope  is  used  mostly  at  night  to  view  the  moon,  planets 
stars,  comets,  and  nebulae.  But  during  a  time  when  there  was  an  excur- 
sion which  brought  many  visitors  it  was  used   to  show  sun  spots  and 


far  off  terrestial  objects  as  well.  After  visitors  had  departed,  a  student 
was  showing  distant  objects  to  orphan  boys,  one  of  whom  was 
greatly  impressed  with  the  power  of  the  instrument.  In  all  seriousness 
he  said:  "Now  turn  it  on  Germany,  John,  I  want  to  see  my  grand- 
mother." 

On  a  few  rare  occasions  death  has  invaded  our  college  community 
and  cast  a  shadow  of  gloom  over  student  body  and  Faculty.  One  such 
occasion  took  place  when  several  students  were  scuffling  in  good  natur- 
ed  play  in  Mr.  Schowengerdt's  yard.  One  of  them,  Pepperling  by  name, 
suddenly  fell  to  the  ground  and  expired,  his  death  being  caused  by 
heart   failure. 

Dr.  H.  A.  Koch,  who  for  30  years  was  President  of  the  school, 
was  a  tireless  worker  in  his  office  and  school  room.  He  found  that  to 
preserve  his  health  he  must  take  physical  exercise.  This  he  did  in  his 
garden  or  on  the  college  campus.  He  took  great  pride  in  keeping  the 
campus  clean  and  could  be  seen  daily,  after  school  hours,  with  his 
wheelbarrow  gathering  up  leaves,  waste  paper,  and  all  kinds  of  unsight- 
ly trash  and  carting  it  away.  Strangers  sometimes  asked  "Who  is  that 
old  man  with  the  wheelbarrow?"  Students  and  teachers  rather  resented 
having  their  President  seen  at  so  menial  a  task  and  often  the  wheel- 
barrow would  disappear  to  be  found  later  in  some  unwonted  place. 
One  morning  it  was  found  in  the  bell  tower.  Of  the  four  students  who 
put  it  there  one  is  now  a  college  professor,  one  a  merchant,  and  the 
other  two  are  ministers  of  the  gospel.  One  of  the  professors,  in  a 
faculty  meeting,  remonstrated  with  the  good  Doctor,  saying:  "A  ten 
dollar  a  day  man  should  not  be  doing  work  worth  only  a  dollar  a  day." 
His  reply  was:  "I  must  have  physical  exercise  and  I  do  it  to  preserve 
my  health."  The  years  of  severe  mental  toil  at  last  broke  down  the 
toiler,  and  brought  on  the  end  of  a  noble  life. 

Eddie,  a  son  of  one  of  the  professors,  was  having  a  hard  time  learn- 
ing the  catechism  in  German.  He  was  discouraged  and  wanted  to  drop 
it.  His  mother  said  "No,  you  must  not,  We  promised  when  you  were 
baptized  that  you  should  be  taught  the  catechism."  "Well  I'll  be 
switched,"  exclaimed  Eddie.  "If  I  make  such  a  promise  for  any  of  my 
kids."  "You  can't  get  them  baptized  then"  replied  his  mother.  His 
brother  Johnnie  thought  he  saw  a  way  out  of  the  difficulty  and  said  he 
could  get  a  Squire  to  baptize  them.  Might  it  not  have  been  better  to 
have  allowed  him  to  learn  the  catechism  in  English? 

A  professor  noticed  that  the  theologs  going  and  coming  from 
their  classes  in  an  opposite  room  were  rather  a  lively  set  and  often 
engaged  in  good  natured  strife  and  scrimmage.  Jokingly  he  said: 
"Professor  Stroeter,  why  do  your  theologs  have  so  much  strife  among 
themselves?"  Quickly  came  the  reply,  "Oh,  that's  easy  to  explain. 
They  belong  to  the  church  militant." 

Oliver,  who  boarded  with  a  private  family,  returned  to  his  room 
at  11:00  a.  m.  as  his  class  was  excused.  He  lighted  his  lamp  and  sat 
down  to  study  just  as  he  did  evenings.  Habit  makes  us  do  some  funny 
things. 


QL  W.  (L  ala  toatfct?*  ^nrfjfdjul^ 

gr  ieb  r  i  d)  90?un  3. 

2)a§  beutfdje  Element  in  ber  @ntroictTung§gefd)id)te  ber  33ereinig» 
ten  (Btaaten,  —  ba$  2$erf  tft  in  feinem  botten  ttmfange  nod)  nidjt  ge= 
fdjrieben  toorben.  £er  betttfdje  91nfiebler  in  ben  SSdlbern  unb  auf 
ben  Selbern  be§  @faate§  Sftiffouri,  tote  mand)e§  §elbenfa£iiel  babon 
tnirb  nte  an§  £idjt  ber  Oeffentltdjfdt  bringen!  99?an  rebet  bon  beut* 
fcfier  £abferfeit  unb  beutfdjer  &reue;  e§  gibt  aber  and)  eine  beutfdje 
©efrfjerbenfjeit,  beren  SSerbienfte  mtr  gu  oft  bom  itberlauten  amerifa* 
nifdjen  ©cfyellengelaute  iibertbnt  roirb.  @in  f)albes>  Safyrljunbert  ftefyt 
jefct  (£.  3S.  (£.  $fn  meltentlegener,  fttHer  93erborgenf)eit  mirften  fjier 
ein  ^afjrgefmt  um3  anbere  treue  beutfdje  banner,  Setter  bon  @otte§ 
(Snaben.  gitr  raenig  (Mb  unb  mit  btel  ^iifye  ergogen  unb  bilbeten 
fie  ein  ©efcfjledjt  um§  anbere.  ©ingen  bie  einen,  fo  !amen  hie  anbe* 
ren  mieber,  Simgltnge  unb  Sungfrauen,  fyunberte,  taufenbe  bon  tfjnen. 
@ie  bflegten  bie  beutfdje  ©£rad)e,  fangen  ba§  beutfdfye  Qieb,  atmeten 
beutfd)en  ©etft  unb  iibten  beutftfje  grbmmigfeit.  90?and)er  alte  £)eut= 
fd)e  flagt  hue  %evemia%  auf  ben  £riimmern  Don  Serufalem  iiber  ben 
unauffjaltfamen  9ImerifanifierungS£ro3efe,  ber  mit  feinen  ©trommel* 
len  ®d)ule  unb  ®ird)e  bi§  in  bie  entlegenften  SSinfel  f)inein  itberflutet. 
SSer  tiefer  in  ba%  amerifanifdje  Seben  unb  £reiben  Ijineinfd)aut,  hrirb 
aber  bie  iiberrafdjenbe  SSabrnefjmung  madjen,  bafj  man  eigentlidj  nod) 
biel  ridjtiger  bon  einer  ©ermanifterung  91  m  e  r  i  f .a  §  reben 
faun.  ®ie  beutfdie  @brad)e  roirb  aU  ltmgang§fbrad)e  mefjr  unb  mefjr 
berfd)toinben,  bod)  auf  alien  $odjfd)uIen,  nieberen  roie  bofteren  ($rabe§, 
gettrinnt  fie  mit  febem  Safjre  an  93oben.  2)er  beutfdje  SSeifynadfyrs* 
baum,  bie  beutfdje  SPUtfif,  ber  beutfdfie  3beali§mu§,  beutfdje  ©rimblid)* 
feit,  ($elef)rfamfeit  unb  (£rfinbergeift  !)aben  fid)  ftille,  aber  fiegreidje 
Wafyn  gebrodjen.  2Som  erften  (MmbungSjabre  an,  burdj  ba%  gan^e 
Ijalbe  SQfiffiunbert  feiner  (^riften^  binburd),  erroie§  fid)  unfere  ^podV 
fdt)ule  al§  eine  £uterin  unb  ^flegerin  be§  beutfdjen  ©eifte§.  53i§  auf 
ben  ^eutigen  £ag  mirb  bie  beutfdje  (Storage,  if)re  Citteratur,  bie  @tt- 
ten=  unb  ®ulturgefd)id)te  nad)  einem  fieben  3fafjre  umfaffenben  Ceftr- 
^lan  ftubiert.  Sm  ^atoeHengotte§bienft  Ijart  man  bon  ein^elnen  Seft- 
rern  no(5  immer  ba%  ©ebet  unb  bie  33ibel  in  ber  9D?utterfurad)e,  bie 
bon  brei  SStertel  unferer  Sbglinge  Oerftanben  roirb.  (So  ift  and)  ber 
©otte§Menft  am  ©onntagmorgen  au§fd)liefelid)  2)eutfcE).  ^n  ber  33i- 
bliotftef  fteben  bie  beutfdjen  ®en!er  unb  ©tditer,  bie  f)errlid)en  ^Iofftfcr 
bom  Uranfange  ber  beutfd)en  ©efd&trfjte  an.  "Die  £beoIogen  fe^Ien 
nid)t,  unb  baZ  mit  $ie$)t,  benn  bon  ilinen  Tftaben  ©ngldnber  unb  SCmcrt* 
faner  if)r  Sid^t  geborgt.  S.  SS.  (£.  tragt  nod)  immer  feinen  beutfdjen 
©tem^el,  benn  mie  fonnte  ein  £>eutfd)er  fid)  berleugnen,  unb  menner 
and)  ein  maftt^ed^ter  5tmerifaner  gemorben  mare!  Siebt  er  5Imeri!a 
roie  feine  53raut,  fo  liebt  er  baZ  Zanb  feiner  55ater  mie  feine  Gutter. 
r&ie  SoI)re  flieften  bfeilgefd^minb."  $lie  me^r  fo  aU  im  afabemtfd)en 
S^eBen.  SSenn  aber  einft  ein  boIIe§  S^br!)unbert  iiber  (£.  3B.  &.  !jin* 
roeggeroUt  fein  mirb,  menu  ein  neue§  ®efd)Iedf)t  unter  ben  griinen  Wau* 


men  rocmbelt,  neue,  ftattlidjere  Sefjrgebaube  gen  £>immel  ragen  roerben, 
neue  ltnbefannte  ^rofefforcn  in  Iid)tcren,  lufttgeren  fallen  bogieren, 
neue  jugenbltdje  ©efialten,  rofentoangige  gimgltnge  unb  gungfrauen 
ifyve  Sieber  fingen  unb  i^re  ®raftc  au§bilben,  felbft  bann  nod)  roirb 
mit  ©anfbarFett  ber  Qeil  gebad)t  toerben,  ba  beutfdje  §anbe  unb  §et> 
jen  ben  ©runb  gelegt  ()abcn  fur  biefe  ^errlirfje,  reidjgefegnete  93tlbuna> 
anftalt. 

§odi  lebe  S.  9B.  (5. ! 


JubiUutma-Staufllr 


Saa  iljMlngtfdje  9?mumr. 


g  r  i  ebr  i  d)  Sftuns. 

®ie  ®trd)C  unb  ba%  firdjltdje  Seben  toon  Ijeute  ftnb  ooflftanbig  an* 
ber§  getoorben.  SStr  famen  git  ber  ©djlufefolgerung,  ba$  e§>  nidjt  bte 
®ird)e  ift,  bte  gerettet  tnerben  mufc,  fonbern  bte  2)?enfd)en.  SDie  ®ird)e 
ijat  ntd)t  ifjr  giel  in  fid)  felbft,  fie  ift  nur  SWittel  sum  8iel.  ®te  Sett 
be§  ^farrerS,  be§  $riefter§,  be§  ^aterg,  be§  Nomine  ift  ein  fur  aHe- 
mat  boritber.  2Sa§  ber  Sftenfd)  Oon  tjeute  fid)  nmnfd)t,  ift  ein  @ee« 
I  e  n  6  i  r  t  e.  „3d)  bin  ein  guter  $irte,"  fagt  gefuS.  £a§  2Bort  metnt 
intime,  fjeiltge  greunbftfjaft  foil  ba%  93anb  fein,  ba§  ben  ®irten  an 
Jeine  §erbe  binbet.    2)er  §irte  ruft  feine  ©djafe  mit  ftamen,  unb  fie 


folgen  feirter  ©timme.  £)er  $rebiger  if±  nicfjt  ein  §err  unter  ®ned)teu, 
er  mufe  felbft  merjr  fein  a  IS  ein  Seljrer  unter  feinen  ©crjitlern.  3Da3 
Sbeal  ift  ein  greimb  unter  greunben.  ®te  lernenbc  ($emeinbe  bebarf 
eine§  SerjrerS,  bie  Ijungrige  ®emeinbe  mufe  bon  einem  @eelenl)irten 
auf  bie  SBeibe  gefityrt  roerben,  bie  arbeitcnbe  (Semeinbe  toiH  einen 
gitrjrcr  rjaben.  2)a§  ift  ber  9iu\  be§>  20.  3arjrl)imbert§,  ber  an  ben 
jungen  Sffamt  ergetjt,  ber  ben  brennenben  23ufd)  geferjen  unb  bie  in* 
nere  ©timme  geljbrt  fiat.  2)a§  roaljre  Seminar  ift  eine  $fko,prjeten* 
jdutle,  roo  jitnge  SJSroj^eten  ©otteS  mtterridjtet  unb  ergogen  roerben  fitr 
bie  fompligierten  Sprobleme  unfercr  Qext.  2Bir  finb  ber  Sfteinung,  bafc 
bie  £f)eoIogie  eine  roadjfenbe,  fid)  erneuernbe  unb  erroeiternbe  Stiffen* 
fdf)aft  fein  mufe,  roenn  fie  mit  bem  gortfdjritt  ber  3eit  Sdjritt  fialten 
JuiG.  (Serabe  tjter  finb  aber  and)  bie  berborgenen  ®Ii£pen,  bon  be* 
nen  (Sefarjr  brot)t.  ©elbft  ^rof.  £>arnad,  ber  beritl)mte  Berliner 
Strjeologe,  fpridjt  bon  einer  „ahiten  35erraeltlid)ung  be3  (£f)rifientum£" 
unferer  Sett.  ®er  (Slaube  faun  fid)  ntdjt  bon  SSerneimmgen  nafyren. 
2)te  ^ofitiben  SBafirfieiten  bilben  ben  gelfengrunb,  auf  bem  ber  mo* 
berne  Sftenfd)  aEein  fid)  fi  alien  unb  retten  fann.  ^ie  grofeen  gunba* 
merctaltoafjrljcitcn  be§  &eidje§  $otte§  mitffen  bem  jungen  ©eifte  flar, 
ftdjer  unb  unberlierbar  geroorben  fein,  eije  er  baZ  Seminar  berldfet. 
„2Bir  fpredjen  bon  bem,  roa§  roir  roiffen  unb  reben  bon  bem,  roa§  roir 
gefefien  fjaben."  £>a§  23udj  ber  SBiidjer,  beffen  $HiteItamft  ba%  Seben 
ber  Seben  ift,  r)at  bie  ©efdjicfjte  ber  SBelt  umgeroanbelt.  2)er  sprebiger 
beg  @bangelium§  ift  fein  $rofeffor  ber  roiffenfdjafilicrjen  £rjeoIogie. 
2Ba§  roir  in  unferen  Xagcn  notig  rjaben,  ift  ein  $erftdnbni§  fur  bie 
ofonomifdjen  unb  fogialen  SebenSfragen,  aber  nod)  biel  merjr  ein  in* 
ienfibeS  (Srfaffen  ber  eroigen  §eil§tatfad)en  ©otteS,  burd)  raeldje  aHetn 
bem  unfagbaren  ©lenb  ber  Sftenfdjfjeit  §ilfe  fommen  fann.  §err  gor* 
frjtfj,  ein  beriiljmter  englifdjer  £f)eoIoge,  fagte  in  einem  SSortrage  bor 
ben  Stubenten  ber  9}ale  Hniberfttdt:  „$d)  beljaupte,  ba%  unter  ben 
gegenrodrtigen  3Serpttntffen  ber  ®irdje,  unb  bor  aUem  um  ber  ®an* 
gel  roiKen  unb  iljrer  3ufimft,  gfieologie  ein  roid)tigere§  33ebikfm§  ift 
al§  ^sFjirantfjro^ic;  benn  bie  90?enfd)en  roiffen  nidjt,  rooran  fie  finb  unb 
roo  fie  fid)  befinben.  @ie  fteuern  blinbling§,  roorjin  immer  ber  S^fall 
fie  fit&rt.  ®oci)  bie  ^eologie  beredjnet  i^ren  ^ur§  nad)  ber  (Sonne. 
Unb  ift  e§  nid)t  fonberbar,  e§  ift  gcfdtjrlicf)  —  mie  roenig  unfere  giibrer 
miffen  mit  eigener  ^anb  ben  ©e^tanten  git  gebraudjen!"  ®a.§  Sr)ri* 
ftentum  bon  Ijeitte  mufe  fid)  roieber  gured)tftnben  in  33esug  auf  bie 
grofeen  £aifadjen  unb  ber  gbttlia^en  Offenbarung.  28ir  moEen  ^ter 
feine  33ud^erroitrmer  unb  £f)eoretifer  b,eranbilben,  fonbern  iunge  ban- 
ner ergietjen,  bie  in  gttbjung  fte^en  mit  ben  5Wenfa^en  be§  f)eutigen 
^age§,  bie  gum  roenigften  in  groei  lebenben  @|3rad^en  2lnttt)ort  geben 
fbnnen  auf  bie  gragen,  bie  t^nen  gefteEt  roerben  mogen.  fanner 
finb  nbtig,  bie  it)re  englifd)e  23ibel  ebenfo  ^anbgu^aben  roiffen  rote  irjre 
beutfdje  unb  bie  an  ®ranfen=  unb  ©terbebctten  in  bex  Sftutterfpradje 
Xroft  unb  ®raft  su  geben  roiffen.  9l\d)t  uur  unfere  3tt)et  roeftlid^en, 
^atronifierenben  ®onferengen  beutfd)er  Sunge,  fonbern  ba%  gefamte 
amerifanifd^e  3Serf  unferer  ^irdje  fiat  bie  Snellen  be§  @influffe§  ge* 
fitfilt,  ber  in  ben  berfloffencn  fitnfgig  ^afiren  bon  unferem  (Seminar 
au§gegangen  ift.    (Stma  an  300  aftibe  ^rebtger,  bie  auf  einfieimifdjem 


COLLEGE  BUILDING 


unb  brau&en  tm  2tfiffton§gebiet  tdtig  ftnb,  fyahen  £)ier  tfjre  2tu§bilbung 
genoffen.  2)a3  Seminar  offeriert  smei  ®urfe,  bie  natf)  2tbfoIt>ierung 
mit  einem  Stylom  hebafyt  merben:  1.  ben  flaffifcrjen  tbeologiftfjen 
®ur§,  ber  ju  bem  @rab  A.  B.  fitfjrt,  nnb  2.  ben  pfteren  tbeologifcfyen 
®ur£,  ber  311  bem  @rab  B.  D.  fityrt.  (Sinen  gottberufenen  jungen 
2Kann  fo  gn  ergieben,  bafe  er  fetrte  *Prebigten  ntd)t  au§  armferigem 
£ilf§material  berau§flaubt  nnb  mitbfelig  3«^mmenfey,  fonbern  ber 
felbft  lernt  3U  benfen  unb  3U  faretfjen  aB  erne  lebenbe  (Stimme,  bte 
Zippen  beriifjrt  Don-  ber  ^ot)Ie  be§  beiligen  5XItar§,  ba§  ift  bte  £)6rf)fte 
2htfgabe,  bte  je  nnferem  £.  2S.  £.  andertraut  morben  tft.  Srt  liefer 
®emut  finfen  mir  auf  unfere  ®niee  unb  beten,  bafc  @ott  un§  in  ber 
bor  un§  liegenben  Snfunft  fitr  bie  neue  3eit  unb  bie  nenen  @efdjlea> 
ter  ebenfo  mirffam  madje  mie  in  bem  berfloffenen  balben  SaWimtbert. 


Central  Wesleyan  Influence 

By  A.  W.  Ebeling. 

EGEND  has  it  that  when  Cornelia,  mother  of  the  Gracchi,  who 
are  well-known  to  all  students  of  Roman  History  on  account  ot 
their  remarkable  achievements  in  making  life  for  their  less 
favored  fellowmen  more  tolerable,  was  asked  to  show  her  most 
precious  treasures,  she  led  forth  her  two  boys  with  the 
words,  "These  are  my  jewels."  This  statement  was  not  prompted 
simply  by  the  sentimental  feeling  that  pervades  the  bosom  of  every 
proud  mother  but  it  was  the  expression  of  a  truth.  It  has  rung  down 
through  the  ages  and  their  lives  substantiated  their  mother  s  fond  words. 
In  truth,  men  and  women,  noble  in  character,  active  in  self-sacrificing 
service  and  ever  true  to  their  well-grounded  convictions,  are  the 
greatest  treasures  that  parents,  nations,  or  schools  could  wish  to  pos- 
sess. Central  Wesleyan  College  is  blest  with  an  army  of  just  such 
deserving  sons  and  daughters,  alumni  and  alumnae,  who  completed  the 
one  or  the  other  course,  or  those  that  spent  some  of  their  school  days 
within  her  halls  and  it  is  but  meet  that  some  attention  be  called  to 
them  and  to  the  influence  that  their  alma  mater  is  exerting  through 
their  life  of  service  to  their  fellowmen. 

A  half  century  has  come  and  gone  since  God  put  it  into  the  hearts  ot 
good  men  and  women  to  found  a  Christian  institution  of  learning  in  the 
German  division  of  the  Methodist  Church  in  the  great  Mississippi  Val- 
ley not  far  from  the  center  of  the  land  of  the  brave  and  the  free.  It 
was  no  small  undertaking  on  the  part  of  the  founders,  for  our  country 
was  then  in  the  midst  of  the  throes  of  a  fierce  and  bloody  civil  war, 
which  threatened  to  rend  in  twain  the  fairest  republic  of  the  ages.  It 
cost  many  a  sacrifice,  it  often  seemed  doomed  to  failure,  but  the  results 
achieved  are  abundant  evidence  that  the  founders  builded  well  and  the 
venture  was  so  profitable  that  it  will  prove  a  benison  for  untold  ages. 
Good  men  and  women  were  trained  and  a  good  man  like  a  good  deed 
never  dies.  With  the  consummation  of  the  union  of  the  German  Col- 
lege at  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa,  and  Central  Wesleyan,  at  Warrenton, 
the  endeavor  to  furnish  trained  Christian  leaders  gained  a  new  impetus 
and  the  future  promises  that  the  second  half  century  shall  see.  only  aug- 
mented good  accomplished. 

The  alumni  list  of  the  college  comprises  692  names,  520  men  and 
172  women.  Sixty  of  those  that  received  diplomas  have  presented  their 
credentials  at  the  court  of  eternal  justice.  Their  work  here  is  done, 
dare  we  say  yonder  it  is  just  begun?  We  have  not  the  figures  that  tell 
us  the  exact  number  of  the  non-graduates  that  spent  longer  or  shorter 
periods  in  our  college  but  we  are  sure  that  they  number  over  10,000. 
They  too  have  gone  forth  in  the  struggle  that  besets  a  life  of  service 
and  in  most  cases  it  proved  or  is  proving  a  continual  Anabasis  and  not 
a  Catabasis  as  was  the  case  in  part  of  the  wanderings  that  are  describ- 
ed by  the  historian  of  old  when  he   writes   about   the   numerical   prototype 


of  our  ten  thousand.  There  is  no  quarter  of  the  earth  that  has  not  been 
reached  by  the  one  or  the  other  of  those  that  once  frequented  the  halls 
of  Central  Wesleyan  and  in  some  measure  they  have  been  influencing 
their  environments  as  they  were  influenced  while  in  training  for  life's 
busy  day. 

Of  the  alumni,  237  entered  that  calling  that  proclaims  the  glad 
tidings  of  Jesus,  tidings  of  redemption  and  release,  the  Christian  min- 
istry. Of  the  non-graduates  great  numbers  have  taken  up  the  same  cal- 
ling. Can  we  estimate  the  influence  Central  Wesleyan  College  is  exert- 
ing through  their  faithful  work?  One  has  risen  to  be  a  bishop  in  the 
church,  some  have  served  acceptably  as  presiding  elders  or  as  we  now 
designate  them  district  superintendents  in  the  same  church,  some  are 
preaching  as  professors  or  as  presidents  of  colleges,  some  preach 
through  the  press,  while  the  greater  number  are  or  have  been  worthy 
occupants  of  the  pulpits  of  churches  ranking  all  the  way  from  Gothic 
grandeur  to  sod-house  simplicity.  Some  of  these  eked  out  their  life  of 
usefulness  in  service  never  once  complaining  of  the  mere  pittance  they 
received  as  remuneration.  It  was  their  meat  and  bread  to  do  their  Fath- 
er's bidding.  Others  have  been  more  favored  by  fortune  but  they  too 
looked  to  a  better  heritage  than  dollars  and  cents.  The  importance  of 
their  calling  and  the  greatness  of  the  cause  appealed  to  them  and  they 
ministered.  Many  an  erring  soul  has  been  pointed  to  its  real  goal 
through  their  ministrations. 

Fifteen  of  the  graduates  and  a  number  of  the  other  former  students 
have  followed  the  call  to  the  uttermost  ends  of  the  earth  to  bring  the 
Gospel  to  those  outside  of  the  pale  of  Christian  lands.  The  denizens 
of  Darkest  Africa,  the  swarthy  Hindu,  the  valiant  Japanese,  the  followers 
of  the  sage  of  China,  the  brown  Filipino,  and  the  dweller  on  the  Malay 
Peninsula  have  heard  the  message  of  the  gentle  Nazerene  as  it  fell  from 
the  lips  of  those  who  were  once  in  our  midst.  Some  spent  a  life  of  ser- 
vice there  among  heathenism  and  now  their  bodies  rest  in  the  land  that 
saw  their  labors  to  await  that  day  when  from  the  ends  of  the  earth  they 
shall  be  gathered  at  the  call  of  their  Master  to  receive  his  commenda- 
tion. Some  are  just  now  in  the  midst  of  a  glorious  work  and  we  are 
sure  that  the  coming  years  shall  see  more  and  more  of  our  strongest 
and  best  students,  who  have  caught  the  world  vision  while  here  in 
school,  doing  the  work  of  a  missionary  in  some  heathen  land  or  among 
those  that  are  submerged  in  dire  distress  and  darkness  in  our  own  land. 

Healing  the  sick  has  always  been  a  close  companion  to  guiding  the 
soul  aright  and  medicine  has  40  of  the  alumni  as  its  followers,  besides 
the  many  that  were  too  eager  to  heal  to  take  time  to  complete  a  college 
course.  We  find  them  'n  hospitals  or  in  private  practice  everywhere 
alleviating  suffering,  ofttimes  exposing  themselves  to  dangers  manifold, 
but  always  ready  and  willing  to  save  life  if  possible.  Some  are  deacon- 
esses or  trained  nurses  bent  not  only  on  doing  a  work  that  taxes  to  the 
utmost  the  strongest  man  but  combining  therewith  the  gentle  touch  of 
woman's  hand  which  is  often  more  soothing  than  the  best  selected 
medicament.  Some  of  the  number  that  have  studied  medicine  are 
lecturers  in  medical  schools  and  others  write  for  medical  journals. 


Twenty-nine  alumni  and  many  of  the  others  adopted  Blackstone  as 
their  patron  saint  and  are  contributing  not  a  little  to  enable  right  tc 
gain  sway  even  though  we  are  told  that  Justice  is  blind  and  that  the 
modern  purpose  of  law  is  to  prevent  the  influential  criminial's  getting 
his  just  deserts.  In  spite  of  the  uncertainty  surrounding  our  institution 
of  justice,  we  do  not  hesitate  to  put  confidence  in  our  lawyer  boys  who 
by  the  training  received  here  can  resolve  "To  be  lawyers  for  Jesus 
Christ"  and  by  their  work  prove  their  assertion.  Some  of  the  number 
have  entered  that  much-maligned  field,  politics,  and  there  we  see  them 
standing  for  clean  politics,  a  thing  of  necessity  in  these  days*  and  an 
honorable  vocation  for  public-spirited  men.  They  do  not  stand  for 
mere  pelf  or  what  is  still  worse  low  down  pilfering  or  as  it  is  termed 
graft.  A  governor,  several  congressmen,  a  number  of  members  of  state 
legislatures,  judges'  of  various  courts,  and  many  other  public  officials 
have  been  chosen  from  among  those  that  were  in  our  college  halls. 

Business  claimed  the  attention  of  115  of  the  list  of  graduates  and 
many  others  are  found  in  bank,  store,  or  office  ready  to  serve  those  that 
need  their  assistance  in  making  money,  that  very  useful  servant  but 
cruel  master  of  mankind,  do  its  legitimate  work,  or  in  securing  the 
necessities  of  life  from  the  busy  marts  of  the  world.  Some  have  gained 
quite  a  competence  and  they  are  more  and  more  awakening  to  the 
fact  that  a  competence,  if  it  deserves  to  be  called  so,  ought  to  make 
them  willing  and  competent  to  do  good  work. 

Next  follow  us  to  the  farm,  to  the  work-bench,  or  to  some  other 
place  where  man  earns  his  daily  bread  by  the  sweat  of  his'  brow  and 
see  how  many  that  were  once  enrolled  in  Central  Wesleyan  as  stu 
dents  are  now  honest  tillers  of  the  soil  or  skilled  or  unskilled  laborers. 
They  are  ever  on  the  alert  to  make  Mother  Earth  yield  her  substance 
for  the  teeming  millions  of  her  children  or  to  perfect  appliances  that 
shall  add  to  the  sum  total  of  human  happiness.  Were  their  days  spent 
in  college  spent  there  in  vain?  No.  A  broader  vision  of  life  is  their 
heritage  and  the  influence  of  their  alma  mater  is  being  shed  abroad  as  a 
benediction  in  their  surroundings.  They  are  the  first  to  be  aligned  on 
the  side  of  everything  that  makes  for  the  general  uplift  and  they 
take  a  live  interest  in  all  the  questions  that  agitate  the  minds  of  wide- 
awake men  and  women  in  these  days  of  progress. 

A  number  of  our  former  students  and  alumni  have  entered  journal- 
ism and  they  are  not  wielding  the  pen  in  vain.  The  press  is  mightier 
than  the  sword  in  these  days  of  peace  and  many  an  editorial  well-fitted 
to  enlighten  and  then  to  enthuse  for  the  good  has  been  penned  by  those 
that  got  their  training  in  expressing  themselves  in  clear  sentences  in 
Central  Wesleyan.  Others  have  become  authors  and  their  productions 
are  also  of  an  order  that  is  a  blessing  and  not  a  curse  for  the  reader. 
One  hundred  thirty-five  of  the  alumni  have  entered  the  profession 
that  teaches  the  young  idea  how  to  shoot.  But  they  are  not  content 
merely  to  teach  it  to  shoot,  nay,  they  aim  to  lead  it  in  shooting  in  the 
right  direction  so  that  its  owner  shall  not  present  a  one-sided  or  gnarled 
appearance  but  a  well-balanced  trinity,  body,  mind,  and  spirit.  Then 
think  of  the  many  non-graduates  that  have  spent  years  in  the  school- 


room.  Who  can  calculate  the  influence  of  the  teachers  that  have  gone 
forth  from  our  midst?  Surely  a  host  shall  rise  to  call  them  blessed. 
Many  of  our  present  students  are  the  pupils  of  our  students  of  former 
days  and  they  are  here  because  of  an  influence  emanating  from  their 
teacher.  We  find  our  students  as  teachers  today  in  all  ranks,  some 
bear  sway  in  the  little  red  schoolhouse,  some  lead  the  pupils  in  the 
grades,  some  superintend  city  school  systems,  some  teach  classes  in 
music  or  have  charge  of  conservatories  of  that  art,  some  teach  in  col- 
leges over  the  broad  expanse  of  our  land,  while  still  others  lecture  or  do 
research  work  in  the  universities.  All  are  training  the  rising  generation 
for  lives  of  greater  usefulness. 

One  hundred  eight  of  our  graduates,  we  are  told,  are  in  that  greatest 
human,  but  God-planned  institution,  the  home.  Think  of  it.  What  does 
it  mean?  Wasted  time  and  money  as  some  pessimists  would  say,  or 
does  it  mean  that  they  are  contributing  something  toward  making  home 
approach  more  nearly  to  the  ideal?  Has  their  training  while  at  col- 
lege added  anything  to  their  ability  to  make  a  home  in  the  higher  sense 
of  the  word?  The  home  is  the  very  foundation  upon  which  civilization 
rests.  Some  one  has  said  that  civilization  is  much  more  a  game  of 
hearts  than  a  game  of  brains,  but  a  Christian  education  such  as  is  acquired 
in  a  Christian  college  is  a  thing  not  only  of  the  head  but  also  of  the 
heart.  So  we  are  sure  that  the  students  that  have  gone  out  from  here 
to  make  the  home  are  none  the  worse  for  having  been  here  but  are  the 
better  prepared  for  their  heaven-bestowed  task.  Their  home  will  stand 
for  all  that  is  best  and  will  indeed  deserve  the  words  of  the  poet  when 
he  says,  "There's  no  place  like  home."  Some  of  the  108  as  well  as  many 
of  the  others  were  engaged  in  the  study  of  music  while  here  and  those 
that  did  not  become  teachers  of  this  noble  art  have,  no  doubt,  often 
had  opportunity  to  prove  that  music  has  charms  to  soothe  the  savage 
breast  and  the  knowing  of  music  has  added  to  their  value  as  home- 
builders.  None  of  them  were  losers  in  life's  battles  because  they  were 
in  college,  but  they  were  and  are  leaders — shall  we  call  them  uncrowned 
queens? 

Readers  think  of  the  inestimable  influence  of  the  more  than  10,000 
students  that  have  at  some  time  or  other  frequented  the  halls  of 
Central  Wesleyan  College.  Try  to  form  a  true  conception  of  how  much 
of  their  influence  is  due  to  the  training  received  here.  What  of  it?  Let 
us  here  and  now  resolve  that  with  the  blessing  of  God  Central  Wes- 
leyan's  influence  shall  be  continually  augmented  as  the  years  roll  by. 
Let  us  also  remember  that  the  blessing  from  above  can  only  be  bestow- 
ed if  we  do  our  part  in  helping  the  cause  of  Christian  education  as  our 
College  endeavors  to  foster  it.  Let  us  do  and  dare  and  give  ourselves 
and  of  our  substance  to  help  the  cause  along. 


1 


Donors  and  Patrons 

By  J.  H.  Frick. 

HE  success  of  any  school  in  securing  financial  aid  and  new 
students  depends  largely  upon  the  good  will  and  co-opera- 
tion of  its  former  students  and  alumni.  A  former  student, 
while  attending  a  German  University,  induced  his  father  to 
come  to  the  help  of  the  young  institution  of  learning,  where 
he  had  received  his  inspiration  to  higher  things,  by  endowing  a  chair  of 
German  Language  and  Literature  with  the  sum  of  $10,000.00.  This  fath- 
er was  Mr.  Louis  Kessler  and  the  son  was  our  beloved  Dr.  J.  L.  Kess- 
ler.  Mr.  Wm.  S'chrader,  of  St.  Louis,  was  the  next  to  give  a  larger 
donation  of  $6000.00,  which  formed  the  nucleus  of  the  Schrader  Profes- 
sorship of  Theology.  He  said:  "I  earned  this  money  at  the  anvil  and  I 
give  it  in  memory  of  my  daughter.  Das  ist  heiliges  Geld."  Two  indus* 
trious  German  brothers,  F.  G.  and  W.  F.  Niedringhaus  in  the  early 
days,  established  a  modest  tin  shop  in  St.  Louis.  By  the  inventive  genius 
of  the  one  and  the  fine  business  ability  of  the  other  their  little  tin  shop 
grew  into  a  great  manufactory — The  Niedringhaus  Granite  Ware  Com- 
pany. Recognizing  the  importance  of  the  growing  school,  these  noble 
Christian  business  men  after  a  great  number  of  generous  benefactions 
permanently  endowed  the  "Niedringhaus  Professorship  of  Historical 
and  Practical  Theology."  Wm.  F.  Niedringhaus  shortly  before  his 
death  bequeathed  an  additional  $10,000.00  for  our  Gymnasium  which 
bears  his  name. 

The  Andrew  Eisenmayer  family  donated  a  handsome  sum  for  the 
erection  of  Eisenmayer  Hall.  Mrs.  C.  Ammann  of  Decatur,  111.,  gave 
the  sum  of  $15,000.00  to  assist  in  the  education  of  needy  students  who 
are  preparing  for  the  ministry.  Mrs.  Addison  Brown,  recently  deceas- 
ed, gave  $5,000  to  establish  the  "Brown  Memorial  Scholarship."  She 
also  left  a  further  sum  for  the  education  of  students  preparing  for  the 
ministry.  These  ladies  were  both  fine  business  women  as  well  as  noble 
Christians  ?nd  have  left  these  funds  to  continue  the  work  dear  to  their 
hearts.  As  we  go  to  press  announcement  is  made  of  a  gift  of  $10,000 
from  the  heirs  of  Mr.  Henry  Block  of  Peoria,  111.,  who  thereby  carry 
out  the  benevolent  intentions  of  the  deceased. 

A  host  of  others  have  made  contributions  to  various  funds,  and 
these  donors,  living  or  departed,  deserve  the  lasting  gratitude  of  all 
friends  of  Central  Wesleyan  College.  May  the  investments  made  by 
these  noble  Christian  men  and  women  bear  the  richest  fruits,  receive 
the  blessings  of  the  Divine  Master,  and,  as  the  years  roll  on,  continue 
to  fulfill  his  command  to  spread  the  light  of  the  Gospel  throughout  the 
world. 

Loyal  sons  and  daughters  of  C.  W.  C,  cheer  up.  These  benefactions 
are  the  fruits  of  your  labors;  they  have  come  from  you  or  through 
your  loving  influence  for  your  "Alma  Mater."  Continue  to  be  her 
"Epistles  to  all  men,"  which  shall  challenge  the  admiration  of  the 
work  of  Christian  education  done  in  Central  Wesleyan  College.  Pre- 
paring young  men  and  women  to  do  the  world's  work  in  church  and 
state  is  the  noblest  work  and  sends  out  influences  which  shall  bless  and 
gladden  the  land.  Your  Alma  Mater  now  stands  in  the  front  rank 
among  the  Christian  Colleges  of  our  State.  Keep  her  there  by  finding 
many   more   Donors   and   Patrons. 


The  Semi-Centennial  Campaign 

By.  J.  E.  Tuschhoff. 

HE  Semi-Centennial  Campaign  was  begun  in  June  1910  by  the 
action  of  the  Trustees  and  the  co-operation  of  the  Alumni 
Association.  It  was  inaugurated  to  mark  the  completion  of 
fifty  years  of  service  as  an  educational  institution  in  June 
1914,  and  to  place  the  college  on  a  good  foundation  to  begin 
its  second  fifty  years  of  work.  It  was  unanimously  agreed  that  $150,000 
would  be  necessary  to  liquidate  the  present  indebtedness,  adequately 
increase  the  endowment  and  to  erect  a  much  needed  new  college  build- 
ing, all  of  which  are  necessary  to  meet  the  requirements  of  church  and 
state  for  the  next  decade.  The  President,  Dr.  O.  E.  Kriege,  was  excused 
from  his  class  room  duties  in  June  1910  for  the  ensuing  year,  so  that 
he  might  devote  his  time  to  raising  funds  for  the  college.  After  a  year 
of  hard  and  successful  work  the  trustees  agreed  that  the  president 
resume  his  duties  in  the  class  room  and  office  and  that  a  financial  agent 
be  appointed  who  could  devote  his  entire  time  to  looking  after 
the  interests  of  the  school.  Rev.  J.  E.  Tuschhoff,  pastor  at  Mt.  Vernon, 
Mo.,  was  elected  to  this  position  in  June  1911,  with  the  official  title  of 
Field  Secretary  of  Central  Wesleyan  College.  He  was  instructed  to 
get  in  touch  with  the  various  congregations  of  the  patronizing  confer- 
ences as  well  as  all  patrons,  friends  and  former  students  of  the  united 
colleges  and  solicit  their  support  for  the  great  forward  movement  for 
Central   Wesleyan. 

From  June  1910  till  June  1913  about  $25,000.00  was  secured  in  dona- 
tions, bequests  and  subscriptions.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  1914  is  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  Central  Wesleyan  and  that  the  raising  of  $150,000 
is  imperative  to  maintain  a  first  class  college  the  trustees  resolved  in 
June  1913  that  President  Kriege  be  again  relieved  of  his  class  room 
duties  in  order  to  prosecute  the  work  in  the  field. 

The  financial  campaign  for  a  Greater  Central  Wesleyan  is  well 
under  way.  President  Kriege  and  Field  Secretary  Tuschhoff  have  been 
pushing  the  work  vigorously  for  the  past  year.  Treasurer  H.  Zimmer- 
mann  has  also  been  actively  engaged  in  this  enterprise.  Publicity  and 
organization  are  two  essential  elements  of  success.  Realizing  this, 
special  campaign  literature  was  prepared  and  generously  distributed. 
The  patronizing  conferences  were  visited  in  the  interest  of  the  cam- 
paign. The  various  districts  each  set  from  $15,000  to  $30,000  as  their 
goal  and  organized  for  work.  The  Quincy  District  was  the  first  to 
engage  in  active  co-operation  with  college  officials  by  setting  $30,000.00 
as  its  goal.  The  canvass  was  begun  in  October  1913  and  satisfactory 
progress  has  been  made.  The  work  will  be  resumed  as  soon  as  possible. 
The  Warrenton  campaign  was  inaugurated  in  the  closing  days  of 
November  at  a  banquet  to  the  citizens  in  the  college  dining  rooms. 
Dr.John  W.  Hancher,  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
was   present   to   assist   in   organizing   the    workers    and    launching    the 


campaign.  After  the  citizens  had  agreed  that  their  share  of  the  $150,000 
should  be  $25,000.  Dr.  Hancher  offered  to  assume  the  last  $1,000  provid- 
ing the  balance,  $24,000,  be  pledged  by  January  31,  1914.  A  thorough 
canvass  of  Warrenton  and  Truesdale  was  taken  up  at  once.  The  Presi- 
dent, the  Field  Secretary  and  the  Treasurer  were  at  work  constantly 
and  the  citizens  organized  a  "Boosters'  Club"  to  help  promote  the  cam- 
paign. The  college  Faculty  assumed  $4,629  and  the  students  pledged 
$3,424.  The  balance  was  made  up  by  the  citizens  of  Warrenton  and 
Truesdale.  At  midnight  on  January  31st,  1914,  the  following  message 
was  wired  to  Dr.  Hancher:  "Your  conditions  met,  the  victory  won. 
Twenty-four  thousand  pledged."  To  this  Dr.  Hancher  replied:  "My 
Dear  Dr.  Kriege:  I  want  to  congratulate  you  and  all  concerned  upon 
the  splendid  achievement  of  $25,000  from  Warrenton.  When  I  remem- 
ber that  no  man  living  in  Warrenton  is  credited  with  owning  $100,000 
worth  of  property  and  that  not  ten  are  credited  with  having  $35,000 
worth,  it  is  the  more  remarkable.  I  shall  be  happy  to  stand  good  for 
the  conditional  pledge  I  made  which  you  met  by  close  of  business  on 
January  31st,  as  per  your  wire.  Please  send  me  two  copies  of  your 
blank  subscriptions  that  I  may  make  the  proper  pledge  over  my  signa- 
ture and  have  a  copy  for  my  own  files.  Kindly  congratulate  Central 
Wesleyan  and  the  people  of  Warrenton  for  me  and  this  office,  and  tell 
them  we  hold  them  in  highest  regard  for  rendering  a  really  great  and 
sacrificial  service.  Long  live  Central  Wesleyan  and  Warrenton,  and  the 
good  Father's  blessings  be  upon  you  and  all  of  you  always." 

At  the  annual  alumni  banquet  in  St.  Louis  January  30,  1914,  the 
Alumni  Association,  representing  the  former  students  of  Warrenton 
and  Mt.  Pleasant  now  residing  in  St.  Louis  and  near-by  cities,  voted 
that  $25,000.00  should  be  the  amount  to  be  raised  by  this  organization. 
This  work  was  taken  up  March  6th  and  very  encouraging  progress  has 
been  made.  It  is  hoped  that  the  canvass  may  be  completed  and  the 
goal  reached  by  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  in  June. 

Plans  are  also  being  laid  for  a  systematic  canvass  of  Warren  Coun- 
ty to  raise  $25,000.  This  campaign  is  to  be  taken  up  in  June  and  car- 
ried on  during  the  summer  months.  Later  on  the  other  districts  of  the 
patronizing  conferences  will  be  visited  and  the  work  prosecuted  until 
the  goal  set  for  each  district  and  the  entire  amount  for  Greater  Central 
Wesleyan  shall  have  been  reached. 

A  great  celebration  is  hoped  for  in  June,  one  that  will  not  only  be 
a  demonstration  of  what  has  been  done  during  the  past  fifty  years  but 
one  where  many  valuable  donations  will  be  announced  by  former  students 
and  friends  of  the  college.  Central  Wesleyan  now  meets  the  requirements 
of  church  and  State  for  a  first  class  college.  The  University  Senate  has 
definitely  ranked  Central  Wesleyan  as  a  class  "A"  college.  The  campaign 
for  $150,000  is  on  in  order  that  the  college  may  meet  the  new  require- 
ments by  January  1st,  1916.  Can  the  half  way  mark  be  reached  by  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  celebration  in  June?  Progress  is  made  by  work 
only.  Heaven  never  helps  a  man  who  will  not  act.  Now  is  the  time  for 
every  man  with  a  forward  look  to  get  his  shoulder  to  the  wheel  and 
push.  Keeping  everlastingly  at  it  wins.  If  YOU  Plan  and  Pray  for 
and  GIVE  to  Central  Wesleyan,  success  will  be  assured. 


Departed  Leaders 

Rev.  Philip  Kuhl 

By  H.  Vosholl. 

APA  Kuhl,  as  he  was  affectionately  called  in  his  later  years, 
came  to  America  in  1834,  at  the  age  of  20.  For  several  years  he 
was  engaged  in  railroad  surveying  and  a  brilliant  future  seem- 
ed to  beckon  him.  In  1837  however  he  located  on  a  farm  near 
Beardstown,  Illinois.  But  the  Lord  had  other  work  for  him, 
and  in  1844  he  entered  the  ministry.  For  many  years  he  filled  the  office 
of  presiding  elder  (superintendent)  most  acceptably.  From  1864  to 
1872  he  was  president  of  the  Western  Educational  Institute  and 
Orphan  Asylum.  He  died  at  Burlington,  Iowa,  June  28,   1887. 

Father  Kuhl  was  a  strong  preacher  and  a  fine  revivalist.  When  he 
became  roused,  with  mighty  voice  and  prophetic  earnestness  he  pro- 
claimed the  wrath  of  God  and  the  love  of  the  Savior.  He  was  a  splen- 
did executive  officer,  and  as  presiding  elder  he  organized  societies  and 
built  churches  in  the  middle  west.  He  was  beloved  by  the  preachers 
and  by  the  people. 

His  executive  powers  showed  especially  while  he  was  at  the  head 
of  the  infant  Orphan  Asylum  and  Western  Educational  Institute.  He 
was  wise  to  plan  and  energetic  to  carry  out.  The  children  loved  him, 
the  students  admired  him,  and  the  teachers  reverenced  him.  Wherever 
he  went  he  exerted  a  mighty  influence  for  the  school  and  for  the  church. 

*   *   * 

Dr.  H.  A.  Koch 

By  H.  Vosholl. 

HE  troublous  times  of  1848  brought  Herman  A.  Koch  at  the  age 
of  twenty  to  the  United  States.  He  was  a  farmer  near  Cali- 
fornia, Mo.,  a  teacher  in  St.  Louis,  then  a  preacher,  and  in 
1855  he  became  the  principal  of  the  German  Department  of 
the  English-German  school  at  Quincy,  111.  When  the  Western 
Educational  Institute  was  organized  at  Warrenton,  Mo.,  in  1864.  Prof. 
Koch  became  the  principal.  Then,  after  having  for  a  time  served  as  the 
head  of  both  the  Orphan  Asylum  and  Central  Wesleyan  College,  he 
became  president  of  the  College  alone  in  which  position  he  continued 
until    1895. 

Dr.  Koch  in  his  day  taught  German  and  Theology  and  many  other 
subjects,  but  his  strength  was  in  Latin  and  Greek.  He  was  of  an 
intensely  practical  character  and  hence  the  vocabulary,  the  forms,  the 
constructions,   and  the  wise   sayings  of  the    ancients    appealed    to  him 


more   than  beauty  of  diction,  depth  of  feeling,   or  the   "tine  frenzy"  of 
the   poets. 

As  an  administrative  officer  Doctor  Koch  was  noticeable  for  eco- 
nomical management.  In  his  day  the  church  and  the  students  were 
poor,  and  cnly  by  close  attention  to  the  pennies  was  it  possible  to 
maintain  and  develop  the  College.  Time  was  an  equally  precious  poses- 
sion  to  the  Doctor  and  he  was  never  known  to  be  idle.  He  read,  he 
studied,  he  wrote,  he  hoed,  he  raked:  he  was  busy  either  mentally  or 
physically.  With  an  energy  that  seemed  inexhaustible  he  performed  the 
thousand  duties  of  his  various  offices.  To  his  students  he  often  seemed 
severe,  but  no  one  was  more  genuinely  solicitous  for  their  welfare  tfran 
Dr.  Koch.  To  the  idle,  the  careless,  the  indifferent  he  was  a  righteous 
judge;  but  to  the  earnest,  ambitious,  hard-working  young  man  he  was  a 
sympathising  friend  and  father. 

*   *   * 

Rev.  John  Schlagenhauf,  D.D. 

By   Friedrich   Munz. 

ENTLEMAN,  is  not  one  man  as  good  as  another?"  "Uv  coorse 
he  is,"  shouted  an  excited  Irishman,  "and  a  great  deal  better." 
If  the  good  old  Doctor  could  have  heard  this  witty  answer, 
he  would  have  smiled  most  heartily.  We  are  all  equals,  but 
seme  are  better,  no  doubt.  And  such  a  one  was  Dr.  Schlagen- 
hauf. Happy  the  young  man  who,  in  his  formative  period  finds  a  teach- 
er, to  whom  he  can  look  up.  In  spite  of  all  the  progress  we  have  made, 
we  lack  personalities,  characters.  Under  the  leveling  chisel  and  plane 
of  our  modern  educational  methods  we  are  losing  a  great  deal  of  our 
own  individual  strength  and  godgiven  originality.  Instead  of  a  voice  we 
hear  only  an  echo;  substance  gives  way  to  the  shadow.  It  was  my  good 
fortune  to  come  in  close  contact  with  Dr.  Schlagenhauf  as  a  student 
and  as  a  colleague.  As  a  young  man  of  eighteen  he  had  crossed  the 
Atlantic,  and  became  one  of  the  students  in  our  seminary  in  Quincy, 
Illinois.  Nearly  all  the  boys  of  those  early  years  in  Quincy  have  by 
this  time  completed  their  journey  to  the  great  beyond.  Dr.  Schlagen- 
hauf had  served  with  success  some  of  the  largest  congregations  of  the 
Saint  Louis  German  Conference  and  had  been  a  successful  Presiding 
Elder,  when  he  came  in  the  height  of  its  intellectual  moral  and  religi- 
ous powers  to  the  presidency  of  the  German  College  of  Mount  Pleasant, 
Iowa.  In  the  classroom  his  mind  worked  with  lightning  rapidity;  his 
definitions  were  clear-cut  like  a  diamond;  his  humor  enlivened  like  a  ray 
of  sunshine  many  a  cloudy  and  misty  day.  In  the  pulpit  he  could  make 
a  biblical  problem,  a  doctrinal  point  as  clear  as  crystal.  He  was  a  born 
teacher.  His  illustrations  were  apt,  full  of  life,  direct  to  the  point,  very 
often  gleaming  with  a  kindly  humor.  He  was  too  practical  to  be  a 
mystic.  His  whole  make-up  was  certainly  not  sentimental;  clear,  cold 
reason    was    predominant.     Holiness    was    for    him  sanctified  common 


sense.  "I  can  preach  much  better,"  so  he  told  us, — "with  a  five  dollar 
goldpiece  in  my  pocket  than  with  the  consciousness  of  having  an  empty 
pocketbook."  He  served  the  college  from  1885  to  1891.  His  path  is  a 
shining  light,  and  he  went  from  the  land  of  shadows  into  the  land  of 
realities. 


Rev.  Rudolph  Havighorst 

By   Friedrich   Munz. 

EV.  Rudolph  Havighorst  received  deep  religious  impressions  as 
a  boy  under  the  influence  of  the  state  church  in  Germany.  In 
the  fall  of  1846  he  dared  to  cross  the  ocean  and  landed  in 
New  Orleans.  A  few  years  later  he  found  salvation  and 
entered  the  ranks  of  the  active  ministry  in  the  Southwest 
German  Conference.  He  threw  in  his  lot  from  the  beginning  with  the 
German  College  in  Mount  Pleasant  and  served  as  minister  and  finan- 
cial agent  from  1878  till  1884.  Three  of  his  sons  are  graduates  of  Mount 
Pleasant  and  are  active  in  the  ministry.  Dr.  C.  R.  Havighorst  is  an 
influential  minister  in  the  Ohio  conference;  Dr.  Edwin  S.  Havighorst, 
who  served  the  college  for  ten  years  as  its  president,  is  at  present  pas- 
tor of  our  first  church  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  and  Trustee  of  Central 
Wesleyan  College.  Freeman  S.  Havighorst  was  active  in  ministerial 
and  educational  work.  Miss  Emily  Havighorst,  for  some  years  in 
charge  of  the  music  department  in  Mount  Pleasant,  is  with  her  husband, 
Rev.  Muenster  in  the  English  work.  For  42  years  father  Havighorst 
labored  and  worked,  and  went  to  his  reward  after  a  beautiful  sunset, 
when  his  son  was  still  the  President  of  the  institution  for  which  he 
prayed  and  toiled  for  nearly  four  decades. 


Dr.  J.  L.  Kessler 

By  H.  Vosholl. 

R.  J.  L.  Kessler  was  born  in  1848  on  a  farm  near  Ballwin,  Mo. 
Here,  as  so  often  on  the  farm,  he  early  developed  a  sense 
of  responsibility.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered  Central 
Wesleyan  College.  In  1872  he  graduated  with  honor  from 
Ohio  Wesleyan.  Next  we  find  him  at  the  Universities  of 
Halle  and  Berlin.  Putting  aside  flattering  calls  to  professorships  in 
various  colleges,  he  entered  the  ministry,  and  in  1876  joined  the  St. 
Louis  German  Conference.  Two  years  later  he  came  to  Central  Wes- 
leyan College  to  which  he  gave  his  best  years — first  as  professor  of 
German,  then  as  professor  of  theology,  and  later  as  financial  agent — 
and  finally  in  1893  he  gave  his  life  in  an  endeavor  to  save  the  Ladies' 
Home  from  the  flames. 


Prof.  Kessler  was  a  rare  combination  of  sound  scholarship,  practical 
common  sense,  and  intense  religious  zeal.  As  few  men,  he  said  "I'll  go 
where  you  want  me  to  go,  dear  Lord."  Whatever  he  did  he  felt  was  the 
Lord's  work  and  therefore  worthy  of  his  undivided  strength.  Therefore 
too  he  was  ever  hopeful — the  most  optimistic  spirit  co  be  found.  He 
knew  neither  discouragement  nor  defeat. 

He  was  a  rare  man  in  that  he  was  a  growing  man.  New  things, 
new  processes,  new  ideas  appealed  to  him,  and  he  was  pleased,  like  a 
boy,  with  an  experience  that  enlarged  his  horizon.  Ambition  he  had, 
but  it  was  for  the  church,  for  Central  Wesleyan  College,  for  the  Master. 

Dr.  Kessler  was  a  great  teacher.  He  insisted  that  his  pupils  think. 
He  did  not  require  much  collateral  reading,  but  he  did  require  thorough- 
ness. Chapters  and  books  were  analyzed,  fundamental  principles  were 
determined,  and  these  learned  and  applied  until  they  became  a  perma- 
nent possession.  His  students  became  enthusiasts,  and  enjoyed  being 
up  against  a  hard  proposition.  He  inspired  with  high  ideals —  not  only 
by  his   direct   teaching  but  by  his  own  splendid  personality. 


Dr.  George  B.  Addicks 

By  H.  Vosholl. 

R.  Addicks  was  a  farmer's  son  whose  childhood  was  spent  in 
Rock  Island  County,  Illinois.  After  receiving  his  A.B.  degree 
from  Central  Wesleyan  College  and  teaching  one  year  in  the 
Preparatory  Department  of  his  Alma  Mater,  he  completed  his 
theological  studies  in  Garrett  Biblical  Institute,  Evanston, 
Illinois.  Then  he  spent  a  few  years  in  the  German  ministry  after 
which  we  find  him  the  teacher  of  the  German  Language  and  Literature 
in  German  College,  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa.  He  returned  to  the  ministry 
and  in  1890  was  called  to  C.  W.  C.  as  Professor  of  Practical  and  His- 
torical Theology.  In  1895  he  succeeded  Dr.  H.  A.  Koch  as  president  in 
which  office  he  continued  until  his  death,  January  31,   1910. 

Dr.  Addicks  was  the  young  man's  friend.  Approachable,  genial, 
sympathetic — he  won  the  hearty  good  will  of  the  young  people  who 
were  entrusted  to  his  charge.  A  president  must  enforce  the  discipline 
of  a  school,  and  hence  is  often  more  respected  and  feared  than  loved. 
Not  so  Dr.  Addicks.  He  had  a  rare  gift  of  winning  the  confidence  and 
high  regard  of  the  student  notwithstanding  his  position.  Often  stu- 
dents whom  "he  had  on  the  carpet"  were  ever  after  his  warmest  friends. 
They  felt  that  he  loved  them  and  that  his  heart  pleaded  for  them  in 
their  peccadillos.  Dr.  Addicks  was  strong  in  revival  services.  His 
appeals  to  the  young  men  especially  reached  their  wills  and  induced 
them  to  say:  "I  will  arise  and  go  to  my  Father."  He  was  an  orator  of 
exceptional  power;  and  his  sermons  on  great  occasions,  his  bacca- 
laureate addresses,  his  oration  on  the  death  of  President  McKinley  have 
a  lasting  place  in  the  memory  of  old  C  .W.  C.  boys  and  girls.  Students 
admired  and  loved   him. 


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Central  Wesleyan  of  the  Present 


By  H.  Vosholl. 

ENTRAL  Wesleyan  College,  as  it  is,  fills  the  heart  with  grati- 
tude for  what  God  hath  wrought.  A  half  century  ago  there  were 
170  pupils  of  whom  a  fourth  were  orphans  and  most  of  the 
others  ready  only  for  the  work  of  elementary  and  grammar 
grades.  Now  its  halls  are  crowded  with  358  earnest  and  ambi- 
tious young  men  and  women  most  of  whom  are  doing  work  that  could 
not  have  been  even  attempted  in  1865.  At  the  same  time  700  graduates 
and  10,000  old  students  look  with  pride  upon  their  Alma  Mater.  In 
1865  four  teachers;  now  seventeen  professors  and  ten  assistant  teach- 
ers. Then  two  frame  buildings;  now  seven  of  brick,  anyone  of  which 
easily  exceeds  in  capacity  both  of  the  original  structures.  Then  no 
endowment;  now  $170,000  with  grounds  and  buildings  worth  $160,000. 
The  golden  age  is  often  said  to  lie  in  the  past  but  in  our  early  years 
the  very  things  we  now  take  most  pride  in  were  entirely  wanting. 
There  was  no  gymnasium,  no  laboratory,  no  library,  no  church.  From 
being  unknown  and  unrecognized,  C.  W.  C.  has  acquired  a  good  name 
not  only  in  our  own  state  but  in  many  states,  while  her  graduates  are 
active  in  various  universities  both  as  students  and  as  teachers.  The 
old  students  are  found  in  the  halls  of  Congress,  in  the  bishop's  chair, 
and  on  the  judges'  bench.  They  are  doctors,  lawyers,  engineers, 
teachers,  preachers,  and  members  of  other  important  professions. 
Everywhere    they   are    doing   a    man's    work. 

Central  Wesleyan  College  now  maintains:  the  College  of  Liberal 
Arts,  recognized  as  a  standard  school  by  state  and  church  authorities; 
member  of  the  Missouri  College  Union,  having  its  own  separate  faculty 
and  soon  to  have  its  own  separate  building;  The  German  Theological 
Seminar}'-  in  which  several  hundred  ministers  have  been  educated;  the 
Academy  offering  a  four  years'  course  and  manned  by  a  special  corps 
of  teachers;  a  successful  School  of  Business;  the  largest  Summer  School 
of  any  denominational  college  in  the  State;  an  Art  Department  and  an 
Oratory  Department  both  of  which  are  growing  in  importance;  and  a 
Physical  Culture  Department  giving  two  years  systematic  training  in 
the    Gymnasium    and    promoting    useful    athletic    games. 

Central  Wesleyan  College  has  several  noticeable  characteristics. 
Always  it  has  emphasized  thoroughness  and  the  seriousness  of  life's 
problems.  The  students  come  chiefly  from  the  families  of  the  middle 
classes  where  life  is  not  all  play  and  where  duty  and  responsibility  are 
still  recognized  as  most  important  factors  in  life.  From  the  beginning 
music  has  received  much  attention.  Piano,  Violin,  Voice,  and  harmony 
courses  are  offered.  In  few  schools  are  such  splendid  opportunities  for 
learning  German  found.  A  large  percentage  of  the  students  are  of 
German-American    parentage    and    hence    there    are    many    classes    for 


OTTO  E.   KRIEGE,  THE  PRESENT  PRESIDENT 


studying  the  ''mother  tongue"  and  in  these  classes  German  is  the  language 
of  instruction.  The  German  section  of  the  library  is  perhaps  the  most 
complete  of  any  college  library  in  the  State.  Of  course  in  all  other 
subjects  the  medium  of  instruction  is  the  English  Language. 

Religious  training  and  character  building  are  stressed.  The  Church, 
the  Sunday  School,  the  Epworth  League,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  the 
Y.  W.  C.  A.  are  strongly  and  efficiently  supported.  The  spirit  of  the 
Fathers,  who  organized  the  school,  is  still  present  and  Central  Wes- 
leyan    College    stands   for   the   best   things   in   education    and   culture. 


Board  of  Trustees 

TERM    EXPIRES    1914. 

Rev.  H.   Zimmermann Warrentou,   Mo. 

Rev.   Franz   Piehler St.   Louis'   Ma 

Rev.  F.  W.  Schlueter Quincy,  111. 

Rev.  A.  L.  Koeneke Pekin'  I1L 

Mr.   Phillip  H.  Walter  (Alumni  Trustee) Tulsa,  Okla. 

Mr.  C.  J.  Jacoby, Alton>  I1L 

Mr.   Theb.    Reuter Nashville,    111. 

Rev.  H.  A.  Hohenwald Kansas  City,  Kans. 

Rev.  D.  W.  Smith Kansas  City,  Kans. 

Mr.    Marcus   Timm Osceola,    Neb. 

TERM   EXPIRES   1915. 

Rev.   H.  J.   Panwitt Decatur,    111. 

Rev.    E.    C    Magaret Belleville,    111. 

Mr.   W.   C.    Kriege Edwardsville,   111. 

Rev.  A.  F.  Ludwig Nashville,  111. 

Mr.   Geo.   Boesch Burlington,   la. 

Rev.    E.    S'.   Havighorst Kansas   City,   Mo. 

Mr.   Fred   Hessel Kearney,    Mo. 

Mr.  Erwin  Voss St.  J0SePh>   Ma 

Judge  A.  D.  Rodenberg,   (Alumni  Trustee) Centraha,  111. 

TERM   EXPIRES   1916. 

Rev.  J.   C.   Rapp, Belleville,   111 

Rev.    H.   J.    Diercks St.    Louis,    Mo. 

Rev.   F.   L.   Mahle Peona'   I1L 

Mr.    C.    Ammann Decatur,    111. 

Mr.  E.  H.  Winter,   (Alumni  Trustee) Warrenton,  Mo. 

Mr.  F.  G.  Niedringhaus St.  Louis>  Mo 

Rev    M.    Herrmann Lincoln,    Nebr. 

Rev.  Samuel  Buechner St.  Joseph,  Mo. 

Otto  E.  Kriege,  President  and  ex-officio  Advisory  Member  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees. 

Committees  and  Officers 

VISITING  COMMITTEE 
ST.  LOUIS  GERMAN  CONFERENCE 

Rev.   F.  W.  Isler St.   Louis,  Mo. 

Rev.    F.    S.    Eitelgeorge Emden,    111. 

WEST  GERMAN  CONFERENCE. 

Rev.   John  ■  Klein Wichita,    Kans. 

NORTH    GERMAN    CONFERENCE 

Rev.    L.    W.    Diederich Red    Wing,    Minn. 

NORTHWEST  GERMAN  CONFERENCE 

Rev.  W.  J.  Loeck Howard,   South  Dak. 

OFFICERS  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

Rev.    Franz    Piehler, President 

Rev.  F.  L.  Mahle,   Vice-President. 

Rev.   D.   W.   Smith Secretary 

Rev.    H.    Zimmermann Treasurer 


EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE  OF  THE    BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 
Rev.  D.   W.   Smith,  President.  Rev.    Franz    Piehler 

Rev.    H.    Zimmermann.  Mr.    E.    H.    Winter. 

Mr.    C.    J.    Jacoby.  President    O.    E.    Kriege,   ex-officio. 

LOCAL  FINANCE  AND  BUILDING  COMMITTEE. 
President,    O.    E.    Kriege.  Rev.  J.  E.  Tuschhoff,  Field  Sec'y. 

Rev.    H.    Zimmermann,    Treasurer.       E.   H.   Knehans. 

Henry  Vosholl.  Friedrich    Munz. 

AUDITING    COMMITTEE 
Henry    Vosholl.  E.    H.    Knehans. 

A.    W.    Ebeling. 


THE  PRESENT  FACULTY 

Henry  Vosholl  Charles  J.  Stueckemann 

Friedrich  Munz  John  H.  Frick  Albert  Sauer 

Charles  L.  Wellemeyer  Eugene  Weiffenbach 


THE  PRESENT  FACULTY 

Frederick  P.  Gutekunst  Albert  W.  Ebeling 

John  Helmers  J    C.  Eisenberg                                Edward  H.  Knehans 

Paul  E.  Hemke  Frank  O.  Spohrer 


THE  PRESENT  FACULTY 

Mary  Jane  Plaehn  John  E.  Tuschhoff,  Field  Secretary    Ruth  Zimmermann,  Preceptress 

Edith  H.  Kriege  August  Heck  Rev.  Henry  Zimmermann,  Treasurer 


The  Faculty 


OTTO   E.  KRIEGE,  A.B.,  A.M.,  D.D. 

President  and  Niedringhaus   Professor. 

HENRY  VOSHOLL,  A.B,  A.M., 

Professor  of  English.     Principal  of  the  Academy. 

JOHN  H.   FRICK,  A.B,  A.M., 

Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Astronomy. 

ALBERT   SAUER,   A.M., 

Professor  of  French. 

JOHN  M.  RINKEL,  A.B,  A.M.,  B.D, 

Emeritus-Professor  of  German  Language  and  Literature. 

CHARLES  J.  STUECKEMANN,  A.B,  A.M.,  DD. 

Schrader-Professor   of   Rhetoric  and   Sacred   History. 

CHARLES  L.  WELLEMEYER,  A.B. 

Professor  of  Latin  and  Greek. 
ALBERT  W.  EBELING,  B.S,  M.D. 
Professor  of  Natural  Sciences. 
EUGENE  WEIFFENBACH,  A.B.,  A.M.,   B.D,  D.D, 
Professor  of  Philosophy  and  Sociology.     Dean  of  the  College. 
GOTTLIEB  C.  HOHN,  A.B,  A.M.* 
Kessler-Professor  of  German  Language  and  Literature. 
FRIEDRICH  MUNZ,  A.M.,  D.D. 
Professor  of  German  Language  and  Literature. 
JOHN  HELMERS,  A.B. 
Professor  of  History. 
MARY  JANE  PLAEHN,  B.O. 
Professor  of  Oratory  and  Physical  Director  for  Women. 
FRANK    O.    SPOHRER,    B.Ped,    B.S.Ed, 
Professor  of  Education 
EDWARD  H.  KNEHANS,  Ph.B. 
Principal  of  the  School  of  Business. 
PAUL    E.    HEMKE,   A.B, 
Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Physical  Director  for   Men. 
FREDERICK   P.    GUTEKUNST,   A.B, 
Professor    of    German    and    Stenography 
EDITH    H.   KRIEGE,   A.B. 
Professor    of    Art. 
J.  C.   EISENBERG,  A.B,  A.M., 
Director   of  the   Conservatory   of   Music.   Piano,    Organ,   Voice. 
AUGUST    HECK, 
Professor   of   Piano,   Theory  and   History   of   Music. 
CHARLES    C.    STADTMANN. 
Leader  of  College   Band.     Teacher  of  Band  Instruments. 


*On  leave  of  absence  1913-1914. 


ERWIN    C.    PAUSTIAN, 
Leader    of    College    Orchestra.     Teacher    of    Violin. 
RUTH    ZIMMERMANN, 
Preceptress. 
ASSISTANTS. 
EDNA  STUECKEMANN,  A.B.  and   FRED   GRUBER, 
Latin. 
DORA  JACOBI  and  ERNEST  BUEHLER, 
English. 
CHARLES  STADTMAN  and  OTTO  HACKMANN, 
Mathematics. 
JOHN    AYDELOTT, 

Geography. 
FEODOR    KATTNER 

Penmanship. 
GOTTHILF    WURST, 
Physical    Culture. 

Officers  of  the  Faculty 

President 


H.  ,o-l..bSer  or  the  KacuHy  and  ^^ ^ 

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S    ztteIann;:....Supt.   of   Grounds   and   Buddings,  and  Treasurer 

Henry    Vosholl ; Registrar 

Ch«-    L-    Wellemeyer •-••  ••—  ^^ 

J.  E.  Tuschhoff   

Standing  Committees  of  the  Faculty. 
Alumni-  Prof.  Frick,  Prof.  Helmers,  and  Rev.  Tuschhoff. 
Athletics:  Prof.  Weiffenbach,  Prof.  Hemke  and  Miss  F-aehn 
Censors:  English,  Prof  Vosholl;  German,  Prof.  Munz;  Art   Miss  Knege. 
Classification:    Prof.   Vosholl,    Prof.   Wellemeyer   and   Pro  .    Knege_ 
Commemorative  Volume:  Prof.  Kriege,  Prof.  Vosholl,  Prof.  Frick,  Prof. 

Munz,  Prof.  Ebeling. 
Concerts:  Prof.  Munz  and  Prof.  Eisenberg. 
Degrees:   Prof.   Stueckemann  and  Prof.   Wellemeyer. 
Discipline:  The  President,  the  Dean,  the  Principal,  the  Superintendent. 
Lectures:  Prof.  Prick  and  Prof.  Ebeling. 

Library:  Prof.  Vosholl,  Prof.   Stueckemann,  and  Prof.  Sauer. 
Publicity:  Prof.  Weiffenbach,  Rev.  Tuschhoff,  Prof.  Knehans. 
Reading  Room:  Prof.  Wellemeyer,  Prof.  Helmers  and  Prof.  Spohrer. 
Social    Life:    Rev.    Zimmermann,    Prof.    Knehans,    Prof.    Gutekunst   and 

Miss  Plaehn. 
Society  Advisors:  Prof.  Wellemeyer,  Prof.  Helmers,  Prof.  Gutekunst. 
"Star"   Editors:  Prof.   Ebeling  and  Pro&  Munz. 
Teachers'   Employment   Bureau:   Prof.    Spohrer,    Prof.    Vosholl,     Prof. 

Ebeling. 


Summary  of  Students 

College    of    Liberal    Arts 84 

Academy     108 

Normal   and    Preparatory    ' 36 

Summer     School 82 

School    of    Business 45 

Art    Department     31 

Department   of    Oratory    42 

Conservatory    of    Music     84 

German    Theological    Seminary 34 

Department   of   Physical   Culture 130 


Total     676 

Deducting    names    duplicated    318 

Total   Number  of  Students    358 

Distribution  By  States  And  Foreign  Countries 

China    2  Missouri     282 

Germany      2  Nebraska     12 

Siam      I  Oklahoma      4 

Arkansas     1  Oregon     1 

Iowa      3  Texas    3 

Illinois    32  Washington      1 

Kansas     9 


Distribution   Of   Missouri  Students  By  Counties. 

Benton     I      Jefferson     1 

Cape     Girardeau 2       Morgan     3 

Clay        4       Osage     1 

Clinton     1       Pettis 2 

Crawford     1      Randolph     4 

Franklin     4       Moniteau     2 

Gasconade     5      Montgomery     52 

Lafayette     5      St.    Charles     20 

Lawrence     7      St.    Louis    3 

Lincoln     22      Scotland     1 

Jackson     1      Warren     151 


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Program  of  Commencement  and 
Anniversary  Exercises 


Program  of  the  Commencement  Exercises 

Wednesday,    May    27,    6:00    p.    m.,    Faculty    Reception    to     the     Senior 

Class,   Church    Parlors. 
Dedication  of  the  Senior  Flag  Pole,  Friday,  May  29,  5 : 1  o  \..  m..  College 

Campus,    Presentation    by    Class    of    1914;    acceptance    by    President 
Kriege.     Address   by   Prof.    Frick. 

ANNIVERSARY  OF  THE  LITERARY  SOCIETIES. 
Friday,  May  29,  8:00  p.  m.,  Kessler  Hall. 

PROGRAM. 

Invocation     Rev.    J.    H.     Knehans. 

Oration:    "The    Progress  of   Man",    (Goethenia) Harvey    Holt. 

Reading:    "Bobby    Shaftoe"     (Philomathia) Amanda    Luelf 

Violin    Solo:    "Thais" — Massenet,    (Garfield) Herbert    Kriege 

Skizzie:  "Der  Rote  Star"— A.  Pilger,   (Germania) 

Fritz   Nagenklaub,  Albert   Hueftle;   Lochen   Gutman,  Anton  Desch- 
ner;  Der  Brillendoktor,  Paul  Bekeschus;  De-  Lehrer,  J^hn  Deschner 

Oration:    "Art   in    Life",    (Philomathia) Ida   Webermeier 

Vocal  Solo:  "Crossing  the  Bar" — Dudley  Buck,  (Philo),  Eliz.  Brockman 

Society    Annual,    (Garfield) Ira    Chiles. 

Debate:  "Resolved  that  Labor  Unions,  on  the  whole,  are  beneficial  to 
Society."  Affirmative,  (Garfield),  Eugene  Gaebler,  and  Clarence 
Aydelott.  Negative,  (Goethenia),  Feodor  Kattner  and  Charles 
Stadtmann. 

Music,  mixed  Quartet:  "Last  Night" — Half  dan  Kjerulf^  Edna  Polster 
and  Malinda  Hildenstein,  (Philomathia),  John  Aydelott,  (Goethe- 
nia), and  William  Meyer,  (Garfield). 

Presentation   of  Diplomas Dr.    Eugene   WeifTenbach. 

INDIVIDUAL  TRACK  MEET. 
Saturday,  May  30,  9:00  a.  rru,  Athletic  Field. 
First  Prize  Winners:   Fred  Buchholz  and  Herbert   Kriege. 
Second   Prize  Winners:   Henry  Schmidtke  and  Walter  Warnke. 

MEMORIAL  DAY  EXERCISES. 
Saturday,  May  30,  1 :  00  p.  m.,  City  Cemetery. 

Invocation Rev.   D.   S.   Wahl,   Edwardsville,   111. 

Address  for  the   G.  A.   R Dr.  Albert  Koeneke,  Pekin,  111. 

Address  for  deceased  Orphan  Children. ...  Rev.  H.   Bruns^  Sedalia,  Mo. 
Address  for  deceased  Ministers.  ..  .Rev.  A.  H.  Bueltemann,  Warrenton. 


ANNIVERSARY    OF   THE   CHRISTIAN   ASSOCIATIONS. 
Saturday,  May  30,  8:00  p.  m.,  College  Church. 

Song;   Prayer  by   Rev.  Benjamin  Kuhler,  Ainsworth,  Nebraska. 

Song The    "Old    Quartet." 

Address    Rev.  Louis  F.  W.  Lesemann,  D.D.,  Chicago,  111. 

Music  by  the  "Old  Quartet";   Benediction. 

BACCALAUREATE   SERVICE. 
Sunday,  May  31,  10:00  a.  m.,  College  Church. 

Academic   Procession. 
Processional:  "The  Son  of  Man  goes  forth  to  War." 
Song:  "Holy,  holy,  holy,  Lord  God  Almighty",  Rev  J.   Gisler. 
Credo;    Prayer  by   Rev.    F.   S.    Eitelgeorge. 
Anthem:  "Rejoice  in  the  Lord" — Schnecker. 
Responsive  Reading    Rev.  A.  L.  Koeneke;  Gloria. 
Second  Lesson,  Rev.  John  Klein;  Offertory. 

Baccalaureate  Sermon Bishop  Charles  W.   Smith,  D.D.,  St.  Louis. 

Prayer,   Rev.  Wm.   Koeneke;   Song:   "Coronation."   Rev.  John  Kracher; 
Doxology;    Benediction. 

ANNIVERSARY  OF  THE  ORPHAN  HOME. 
Program  by  the  Orphan  Children,  College  Church,  Sunday  May  31,  at 
2:  30  o'clock  p.  m. 

SUNDAY  EVENING  SERVICE. 
College  Church,  May  31,  8:00  p.  m.,  Dr.  Stueckemann,  Presiding. 

Song;  Prayer  by  Rev.  W.  J.  Loeck,  Howard,  South  Dakota. 
Anthem,  "The  Lord  Reigneth" — Schnecker;   Offertory. 
Annual  German  Sermon. ...  Rev.  John  Pluenneke,  D.D.,  Brenham,  Tex. 
Anthem;   Benediction. 

ANNIVERSARY  OF  THE  ORPHAN  HOME. 

Monday,  June  1,  10:00  a.  m.,  College  Church. 

Addresses  by  Rev.  F.  H.  Wippermann,  Superintendent  of  the  Home,  and 

Rev.  A.  J.  Bucher,  D.D.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
2:  30  p.  m.,  Brief  Addresses;     Field  Day  Exercises. 

ACADEMY  GRADUATING  EXERCISES. 

Monday,  June  1,  3:00  p.  m.,  Kessler  Hall. 

PROGRAM. 

Piano    Duet,    "Valse    Brilliante." — Merz,    Elizabeth    S'chowengerdt    and 

Esther   Buschmann. 

Oration,   "The   Ideal  and  the   Real", Oliver   Gaebler 

Reading,  "The   Man  Without  a  Country",   Hale, Mattie   Bohmer 

Trombone    Solo,    "When    the    Sands    of   the    Desert    Grow    Cold" — Ball, 

William  Meyer. 

Essay,  "The  Life  of  a  Country  School  Teacher" Anna  Vieth 

Original  Story,  "A  Trip  to  the  Panama  Exposition".  .  .C.  A.  Stelzriede. 

Violin   Solo,   "The   Dying  Poet"— Balfe Allen   Brink 

Class    Prophecy P.    J.    Allwell 

Male  Quartet,  "Dearest  Mae",  Wm.  Meyer,  Allen  Brink,  Oscar  Kettel- 

kamp  and  Otto  Beck. 
Presentation  of  Diplomas Prof.  E.  H.  Knehans. 


Fiftieth  Anniversary  Celebration  of  the  College 

Tuesday,  June  2,  10:  00  a.  m.,  Prof.  Frick  Presiding. 

Vocal   Solo,  "Ave   Maria" — Massenet Elizabeth   Brockman. 

Prayer Rev.    Geo.    W.    Reitz,    St.    Louis,    Mo. 

The  College  and  The  Public;  Greetings.     Responses  in  behalf  of: 

The    City   and    Community,    Mr.    Edward    H.    Winter,    Editor    "The 
Warrenton   Banner,"  Warrenton,  Mo. 

The   State,   His  Excellency,   Governor   Elliott  W.   Major,   LL.D. 

The  Nation,  the  Honorable  Champ  Clark,  Speaker  of  the  House  of 
Representatives,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Vocal    Solo,    "Finland    Love    Song" — Bartlett Otto    Hackmann 

Greetings  from  Delegates  from  five  German  M.  E.  Colleges. 

In  the  absence  of  the  Hon.  Champ  Clark,  and  Gov.  Major,  Rev.  C.  W. 

Tadlock  of  St.  Louis  delivered  a  masterful  address  on  "The  Purpose 

of   Education." 

June  2,  2:00  p.  m.,  Dr.  Munz  and  Prof.  Helmers  Presiding. 

Vocal    Solo,    "Ein    Traum" — Grieg Edna    S'tueckemann. 

The  College  and  the  Churches;  Greetings.     Responses  in  behalf  of: 
German  Methodism,   Rev.  J.  A.  Diekmann,  D.D.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
St.  Louis-  German  Conference,  Rev.  Wm.  Koeneke,  D.D.,  Warrenton 
West    German    Conference,    Rev.    John    Kracher,    Humboldt,    Nebr. 
Missouri  Conference,  Rev.  F.   E.  Day,  D.D.,  St.  Joseph,  Mo.   (Rep- 
resented by  Rev.  H.  J.  Dueker,   Green  City,  Mo.) 
St.   Louis   Conference,   Rev.  Wm.  Wirt  King,   D.D.,  St.   Louis,   Mo. 

(Represented  by  Dr.  B.  F.  Crissman,  St.  Louis,  Mo.) 
Missouri  Conference,  M.  E.  South,  Rev.  C.  W.  Tadlock,  St.  Louis. 
Evangelical  Synods,  Rev.  Wm.  Jungk,  D.D.,  Editor  "Friedensbote," 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Song,   "All   Through   the   Night" Olympic   Glee   Club 

Band  Concert,  College  Campus,  4:30  p.  m. 

Chorus  Concert,  College  Church,  8:00  p.  m. 

Oratorio:  "The  Prodigal  Son" — Sullivan.    Prof.  J.  C.  Eisenberg,  Direc- 
tor;   Prof.    August   Heck,   Accompanist. 

Wednesday,  June  3,  10:00  a.  m.,  Prof.  Vosholl  Presiding. 

Academic  Procession,  Alumni  Marching  by  Classes. 

Music,   "Sextette   from   Lucia" — Donizetti Olympic    Glee    Club. 

Prayer Rev.  J.  A.  Mulfinger,  D.D.,  Chicago,  111. 

The  College  among  the  Schools  of  the  State;  Greetings.     Responses  in 

behalf  of: 

Institutions  of  the  State,  Prof.  Herman  Almstedt,  Ph.D.,  Columbia. 

Department    of    Education,    Prof.    George    Melcher,    Jefferson    City. 

Missouri  College  Union,   President  Linn,   Fayette,  Mo.   (Represent- 
ed by  Prof.  Charles  Bernard  Flow.) 
Music,  "Hark,  the  Trumpet     Calleth"— Buck Olympic  Glee  Club 


Wednesday,  June  3,  2:00  p.  m.,  Dr.  Weiffenbach  Presiding. 

Music,  "Moonlight  on  the  Lake" — White Olympic  Glee  Club. 

Prayer,   Rev.  J.  A.  Diekmann,   D.D.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
The  College  among  the  Schools  of  the  Church.     Responses  in  behalf  of* 
Colleges     of     German      Methodism,     Prof.      C.    W.    Hertzler,      D.D. 

Berea,  Ohio. 
Colleges    of    Methodism,    President    A.    W.    Harris,    LL.D.,    North 

western  University,   Evanston,  111. 
Board  of   Education,   M.    E.   Church,   Rev.  Thomas   Nicholson,   D.D. 
Corresponding   Secretary,   New   York. 

Music,    "Serenade" — Spicker Olympic    Glee    Club. 

Ground  Breaking  for  New  College  Building,  4:00  p.  m. 
Addresses  by  President  Kriege  and  Dr.  Thomas  Nicholson.     Prayer  by 
Dr.   Wm.   Koeneke.    Brief   sentiments   by  forty   persons    as   each  in 

turn  took  the  spade  in  hand. 

Faculty   Reception  to   Official  Visitors,  4:30  to   6:00  p.  m.,  in 

Parlors  of  Ladies'  Home;  Refreshments  in  Dinnig  Hall. 

Alumni  Banquet  in  Church  Parlors  at  6:00  p.  m.^  O.  A.  Knehans,  Esq., 

St.   Louis,  Toastmaster. 

Music    College   Orchestra 

Responses  for: 

Sons  of  Central  Wesleyan.  . .  Paul  Ditzen,  Esq,  Kansas  City,  Kans. 
Daughters  of  Central  Wesleyan,  Mrs.  Chas.  Schuettler,  Farmington 
Toasts  by  President  Harris,  Secretary  Nicholson,  Prof.  Almstedt,  Dr. 
Wm.  Koeneke,  Rev.  John  Klein,  Rev.  H.  E.  Rompel,  Judge  Roden- 
berg,  Hon.  Wm.  Vosholl^  Mr.  C.  J.  Jacoby.  Mama  Koch,  Rev.  E.  S. 
Havighorst,  J.   E.  Tuschhoff,   O.  E.   Kriege  and  others. 

SENIOR  CLASS  DAY  EXERCISES. 
Thursday,  June  4,  10:00  a.  m.,  College  Church,  Dr.  Ebeling  Presiding. 

Invocation Bishop  William  O.  Shephard,  D.D.,  Kansas  City,  Kans. 

Oration,   "The   Enemy  at   Home" Edna   Polster. 

Piano    Solo,    "Impromptu" — Reinhold Eme    Schultz. 

Oration,   "The   Higher    Conservation" Wesley  Weihe. 

Rede,   "Sein,   nicht   Schein" Anna   Rinkel. 

Vocal    Music,   "Lovely   Night" — Offenbach-Sherwood. ..  Ladies'    Quartet. 
Mrs.  Knehans,  Miss  Zimmerman    Miss  Stueckeman,  Miss  Kriege.    . . 

Oration,  "A  Curse  in  Disguise" A.  W.  Starkebaum. 

Doxology;   Benediction. 

GRADUATING  EXERCISES. 
Thursday,  June  4,  2 :  00  p.  m.,  College  Church. 

Invocation    Rev.    Louis    F.    W.   Leseman,    D.D.,    Evanston,    111. 

Vocal  Solo,  "My  Redeemer  and  my  Lord" — Buck Edith  Kriege. 

Commencement    Oration,    Bishop    William    O.    S'hepard,    D.D.,    Kansas 
City,    Kansas. 

Vocal    Solo,    "Good-bye" — Tosti Adienne    Eversmeyer. 

Charge   to    Graduates;   Conferring  of  Degrees President   Kriege. 

Doxology;   Benediction. 


The  College  and  the  Community 

Address  by  E.  H.  Winter,  Editor  of  the  Warrenton  Banner 

Worthy  Alumni  and  Friends: — It  would  be  a  great  pleasure  for  any 
citizen  of  Warrenton  to  say  a  word  of  commendation  for  Central  Wes- 
leyan  College,  and  it  is  indeed,  a  very  great  pleasure  to  me,  being  so 
closely  connected  with  the  school,  and  owing  so  much  to  my  Alma 
Mater  for  what  I  am,  or  ever  hope  to  be. 

Two  score  and  ten  years  ago,  when  a  great  Civil  War  had  rent  our 
great  and  glorious  country,  our  fathers  were  fired  with  the  lofty  pur- 
pose of  providing  for  their  children  an  education  under  religious  influen- 
ces, and  at  the  same  time  give  them  an  opportunity  to  maintain  the  cor- 
rect usage  of  the  mother  tongue.  There  was  also  need  of  an  institution 
to  train  young  men  to  carry  the  Gospel  to  the  many  Germans  who 
were  coming  to  our  land  of  liberty  and  promise  in  the  fifties  and  six- 
ties. At  that  time  many  children  were  fatherless  on  account  of  the 
ravages  of  the  war,  and  there  was  also  need  to  provide  an  institution  to 
care  for  them  properly.  After  long  and  careful  deliberation,  it  was 
finally  decided  to  establish  such  an  institution  in  Warrenton,  and  on 
October  3,  1864,  the  Western  Orphan  Asylum  and  Educational  Institute 
was  opened  for  the  young  people  of  the  church  and  of  the  community, 
and  it  had  as  its  head  the  beloved  Dr.  Herman  A.  Koch,  who  guided 
the  school  safely  through  many  stormy  experiences.  The  decision  to 
establish  the  school  here,  has  proven  an  invaluable  blessing  to  War- 
renton and  Warren  county,  and  also  the  surrounding  counties.  We  as 
a  people  believe  in  schools,  and  homes.  The  better  the  education, 
the  better  the  homes;  and  we  might  also  say  the  better  the  homes,  the 
better  the  education.  Because  of  our  Alma  Mater,  Warrenton  has  been 
doubly  blessed;  first  with  a  large  percentage  of  happy  Christian  homes, 
and  second  with  one  of  the  five  leading  colleges  of  the  state,  and  one 
of  the  leading  colleges  of  Methodism  of  the  country. 

It  would  be  difficult,  in  so  brief  a  period,  to  speak  of  all  of  the 
many  blessings  and  advantages  which  such  an  institution  brings  to  a 
community.  It  gives  to  the  vicinity  a  tone  of  refinement,  culture,  intel- 
ligence and  a  high  moral  standard,  such  as  but  few  communities  can 
equal,  and  none  surpass.  The  matter  of  the  great  financial  benefit  must 
be  passed  over  hurriedly,  as  any  motive  to  have  the  college  for  that 
purpose  only,  would  be  a  selfish  one,  and  if  Central  Wesleyan  has 
taught  us  anything,  it  has  been  to  be  open-hearted,  and  liberal.  Of 
the  educational  advantages,  however,  we  have  just  reasons  to  boast. 
In  the  Christian,  intelligent,  altruistic  faculty,  the  best  there  is  to  be 
learned  in  the  best  and  largest  schools  of  the  land,  is  brought  to  our 
own  doors.  There  is  scarcely  a  man  on  the  entire  faculty  who  has  not 
been  trained  in  the  largest  universities,  and  some  of  them  have  spent 
considerable  time  abroad,  and  they  bring  us  the  refinement  and  culture 
of  the  schools  of  the  older  countries.  Thus  you  will  s'ee  that  the 
knowledge  of  literature,  art,  music  and  the  sciences  of  the  entire  world 


THE  LADIES'  DORMITORY 


is  brought  to  us  through  the  members  of  our  beloved  faculty.  In  addition 
to  their  finished  education,  all  of  them  have  had  wide  practical  experience 
in  the  problems  and  trials  incident  to  human  life  everywhere,  which 
doubly  fits  them  for  the  high  and  important  position  which  they  hold. 
What  a  rare  privilege  we  have,  indeed  in  having  such  men  active  in 
our  midst  as  instructors  of  the  youth  of  our  community.  It  is  a  privil- 
ege of  which  any  community  would  be  proud,  and  for  which  many  com- 
munities would  be  willing  to  pay  large  sums. 

Central  W.esleyan  is  fully  accredited  by  the  State  Department  of 
Education,  and  is  also  fully  recognized  by  the  larger  universities  of  the 
state  and  also  of  the  East.  How  fortunate  we  are  to  have  a  school  in 
our  midst  that  trains  its  pupils  in  such  a  manner  as  will  enable  them  to 
go  out  into  the  world,  and  be  recognized  by  educators  everywhere  with- 
out question.  A  certificate  from  the  Department  of  Education  admits 
the  young  people  to  the  schools  of  the  state  as  teachers,  and  to  the  best 
universities  of  the   East  or  West,  without  question,     for  further  study. 


In  many  of  the  better  schools  of  learning,  even  the  mention  of  the 
name,  Central  Wesleyan,  will  open  hands  and  hearts,  and  at  once  give  a 
high  standing  in  that  school.  Hundreds  of  boys  and  girls  of  our  com- 
munity have  taken  advantage  of  this  rare  opportunity  which  is  offered 
at  their  door,  and  are  now  among  the  leading  instructors  in  this  and  ad- 
joining states — some  of  them  receiving  recompense  far  in  excess  of 
that  received  by  their  good  teachers  and  instructors  in  their  alma  mater. 
Such  opportunities  necessarily  can  come  to  but  few  communities  in  a 
commonwealth,  and  I  am  here  to  tell  you  today  that  we  as  citizens  of 
Warrenton,  are  proud  of  this,  and  appreciate  it  to  our  full  capacity  to 
appreciate  a  good  thing.  If  any  of  our  young  people  desire  to  be  train- 
ed in  Literature  and  Art,  Central  Wesleyan  provides  the  instruction  and 
training;  should  there  be  some  who  desire  to  be  proficient  in  Historyj 
the  Sciences  or  kindred  branches,  the  best  teachers  in  the  land  in 
schools  of  her  class,  are  at  their  service  in  Central  Wesleyan.  If  one 
should  have  ambitions  along  commercial  lines,  here  they  can  secure  a 
competent  education  which  will  enable  them  to  go  out  and  cope  with 
big  business,  and  what  is  more;  in  addition  to  the  necessary  knowledge, 
they  will  be  endowed  with  a  character  and  a  spirit  of  fairness  which 
will  make  them  most  useful  members  of  society.  If  the  professions 
should  attract  one  or  another,  Central  Wesleyan  will  lay  for  them  a 
foundation  that  will  win  for  them  a  high  and  honorable  position  in 
their  chosen  profession.  In  that  fine  art,  music,  which  has  thrilled  the 
hearts  and  souls  of  many  of  our  people,  the  knowledge  of  the  masters 
of  both  Europe  and  America  is  at  their  services  through  the  instruc- 
tors in  the  Conservatory,  which  is  surpassed  by  but  few  in  the  state. 
And  then,  for  those  who  aspire  to  the  highest  of  all  callings,  the  Chris- 
tian ministry,  where  in  the  whole  wide  country  is  there  better  oppor- 
tunity to  qualify  for  the  service  of  the  Master,  than  right  here  at  Cen- 
tral Wesleyan  College,  where  men  are  given  Christian  training  and 
characters,  such  as  will  move  the  world  to  higher  and  nobler  planes. 
Oh!  its  a  blessed  privilege  we  have  here  to  educate  our  boys  and  girls 
to  become  useful,  valuable  citizens  in  any  vocation  they  may  desire  to 
choose. 

While  we  have  appreciated,  immensely,  the  educational  advantage 
of  our  college,  it  has  meant  much  to  us  in  other  particulars.  It  is  a 
tremenduously  fine  education  for  us  to  have  the  sons  and  daughters  of 
the  best  families  of  a  dozen  states  in  the  Central*  West  come  to  us  each 
year  to  make  this  their  home.  The  best,  the  choicest  girls  and  boys  come, 
and  we  have  learned  much  from  our  association  with  them  which  has 
tonded  to  make  us  better  citizens.  For  a  half  century  they  have  come 
and  gone,  and  their  being  here  could  not  but  exert  an  influence  for 
good  upon  us.  We,  who  live  here,  and  see  them  come  and  go,  are  glad 
to  see  so  many  come  here  in  the  rough,  and  see  them  go  away  finely 
polished,  well  trained,  highly  educated  Christian  men  and  women — 
many  of  them  jewels  in  their  value  to  the  communities  in  which  they 
may  cast  their  lot,  and  almost  all  of  them  a  power  for  good.  One  of 
the  first  to  come,  and  we  are  glad  the  opportunity  has  never  come  for 
us  to  see  him  leave,  sits  at  my  left  at  this  moment,  and  judging  from 


EISENMAYER  HALL 


the  appearance  of  his  upper  extremity,  he  is  a  very  polished  gentleman. 
We  have  had  the  pleasure  to  know  him  as  we  know  our  own  lives,  and 
can  testify  that  he  has  a  character  which  is  far  more  finely  polished 
than  his  upper  extremity.  Prof.  Frick?  the  Grand  Old  Man — not  only  of 
the  College,  but  also  of  the  entire  community,  and  of  all  patrons  of  the 
college.  A  mighty  power  for  good  he  has  been,  and  I  am  sure  that 
when  the  great  book  of  reckoning  in  the  world  of  eternal  sunshine  is 
balanced,  after  he  shall  have  crossed  the  dark  valley,  a  host  of  lives, 
whom  his  own  life  influenced  for  good,  will  be  found  to  his  credit. 
The  model  as  Christian  men  which  he  and  his  venerable  Christian  class 
mate  made  in  the  early  sixties,  seems  to  have  come  down  through  the 
ages,  and  influenced  the  hundreds  of  students  who  followed,  and  I  like 
to  think  that  many,  many,  tried  to  emulate  the  noble  example  which 
you,  my  noble  sires,  then  gave,  and  are  still  giving.  Priviliged?  Why 
we  can  hardly  find  words  to  express  our  appreciation  of  the  students 
who  attend   Central   Wesleyan   each  year      It  would  take   the   breath   of 


a  thousand  citizens  of  Warrenton  if  the  announcement  were  made  on 
commencement  day,  that  this  happy  band  would  not  return  in  Septem- 
ber next.  We  have  long  since  learned  to  love  them.  They  have  hal- 
lowed these  grounds  far  beyond  our  efforts  to  tell.  Shady  Lane,  said 
to  have  been  established  by  Prof.  Frick  fifty  years  ago,  and  he  still 
travels'  it  with  his  sweetheart  of  yore,  and  we  are  sure  he  travels  it 
happier  than  in  the  days  of  yesteryear.  Shady  Lane,  the  Wabash 
Bridge,  Little  Charrette,  Big  Charrette,  Lost  Creek,  Hollmann's  Cave, 
Devil's  Den  Hollow,  Devil's  Boot,  and  many  other  places,  almost  made 
sacred  to  students  of  C.  W.  C,  have  made  our  community  famous,  and 
made  it  one  of  the  most  desirable  places  to  live  in  the  whole  wide 
world.  It  is  true,  not  all  the  students  have  been  saints.  Here  and 
there  have  been  black  sheep,  but  we  have  learned  to  be  patient  with 
them,  and  many  times  have  been  glad  to  see  them  climb  to  heights  as 
mountain  tops,  and  characters  as  white  as  the  eternal  blanket  which 
covers  them.  We  like  to  see  the  students  come.  They  have  meant  much 
to  us,  and  we  hope  and  pray  that  someone  may  say  something,  so  that 
someone  may  do  something,  that  will  make  it  possible  for  more  to  come 
under  the  influence  of  Central  Wesleyan.  We  like  them  in  their  plays 
and  their  frolics;  we  like  to  hear  them  in  their  laughter  and  their 
cheers;  and  we  also  like  to  see  them  in  the  hard  struggles  of  student 
life,  as  it  is  this  that  makes  them  bigger  and  better  men  and  women. 

As  a  community,  we  appreciate  also  the  many  advantages  which 
come  to  us  by  way  of  addresses  and  performances.  We  have  been 
enabled  to  hear  the  foremost  speakers  of  pulpit  and  platform  right 
here  at  our  own  homes  and  at  a  cost  that  is  insignificant,  and  frequent- 
ly gratis.  The  master  pianists,  organists  and  singers,  too,  have  come 
to  inspire  us,  and  elevated  us  to  higher  and  better  standards. 

In  our  appreciation  of  the  college,  it  would  be  an  injustice  to  close 
without  a  word  of  commendation  for  the  noble  men  and  women  who 
are  here  devoting  their  lives  in  the  training  of  young  people.  The 
tremenduous  power  for  good  which  the  college  exerts  in  the  community 
through  its  facutly,  can  not  be  overestimated,  and  we  sincerely  believe 
outweighs  all  other  benefits  derived  from  it.  We  scarcely  know  what 
we  should  say  in  appreciation  of  them  and  their  beloved  families.  I 
challenge  anyone  in  this  large  audience  to  point  out  a  single  one  of 
the  teaching  force  of  Central  Wesleyan,  who  is  not  a  Christian  gentle- 
man or  a  Christian  lady,  of  the  highest,  most  ideal  type.  Intelligent, 
pure  of  heart  and  principle,  capable,  dignified,  and  yet  so  lowly  as  to 
stoop  down  to  lift  the  most  lowly  in  our  midst  to  higher  planes.  How 
many  communities,  in  a  class  with  our  own,  can  boast  of  such  men 
and  women  as  citizens?  They  enter  into  our  community  life  with  a 
fervor  and  a  spirit  that  is  helpful  and  uplifting.  One  cannot  help  but 
become  a  better  citizen  by  constant  association  with  them,  and  you 
would  be  ashamed  while  in  their  presence  to  stoop  even  the  slightest 
degree  below  the  highest  level  of  a  lady  or  gentleman.  They  rejoice 
with  us  in  our  success  and  good  fortunes;  they  weep  with  us  in  our 
failures  and  sorrows.  In  how  many  homes  in  our  county  have  they 
not   been   the   first   to   shed   a   sympathizing  tear,   and   extend   real   sym- 


ORPHAN  HOME 


pathy  and  comfort.  We,  who  are  on  the  ground  floor,  are  proud  to 
have  in  our  midst  such  a  force  of  teachers*,  and  we  hope  the  Giver 
of  all  good  and  perfect  gifts  may  prolong  their  lives  to  extreme  old 
age,  so  that  their  tremendous  power  for  good  may  continue  for  many, 
many  years  to  come.  We  can  ill  afford  to  lose  even  a  single  one  of 
them. 

Our  words  of  appreciation,  we  would  have  you  believe,  are  not 
idle  thoughts.  We  believe  as  sincerely  in  what  was  said  as  we  believe 
in  a  great  future  for  the  college.  This  was  at  least  partially  indicated 
recently  when  our  little  city  subscribed  the  magnificient  sum  of  $25,000, 
$29  for  every  man,  woman  and  child  in  Warrentofi,  to  make  it  a 
greater  Central  Wesleyan,  and  my  honest  conviction  is  that  the  end 
has  not  yet  come.  Of  one  thing  we  can  assure  you  that  our  influence 
and  prayers  are  with  you,  and  will  not  cease  until  Central  Wesleyan  is 
made  the  grandest  college,  in  point  of  usefulness,  in  the  grand  com- 
monwealth of  Missouri. 


The  Place  of  the  Church  College 

Address  by  Rev.  C.  W.  Tadlock,  D.D., 
Pastor  Centenary  Church,  M.  E.  South,  St.  Louis 

I  come  to  you  to  bear  the  greetings  and  good  wishes  of  the  church 
which  I  represent.  I  count  it  no  small  honor  to  have  a  part  in  your 
Semi-Centennial  Celebration.  It  is  altogether  fitting  that  such  a  cele- 
bration should  be  held,  for  it  offers  an  opportunity  for  taking  an  inven- 
tory of  your  educational  possessions,  looking  over  a  long  and  splendid 
record  of  work,  and  getting  inspiration  for  a  forward  move. 

I  am  sure  that  Christian  people  everywhere  will  rejoice  with  you 
in  the  splendid  progress  you  have  made.  I  doubt  if  any  denominational 
college  in  the  state  can  show  a  more  substantial  growth  than  Central 
Wesleyan.  Your  standards  have  been  raised  and  your  courses  of 
study  indicate  that  you  are  moving  with  the  progressive  spirit  of  the 
age.  Your  work  deserves  the  highest  praise,  and  I  am,  indeed}  happy 
to  be  here,  and  to  assure  you  that  we  rejoice  with  you  for  what  you 
have  wrought  for  the  great  cause  of  Christian  education,  and  to  express 
the  hope  that  your  college  will  gird  herself  with  new  power,  and  move 
out  of  a  noble  past  into  a  nobler  future. 

You  have  come  to  another  mile-stone  in  the  history  of  your  col- 
lege, and  as  you  look  back  upon  its  record,  and  note  how  through  the 
years  the  dream  of  your  fathers  has  taken  form  in  the  buildings'  which 
grace  the  campus,  the  different  departments  which  have  been  added 
from  time  to  time,  you  and  all  of  us  should  feel  a  profound  gratitude 
to  God  for  the  men  who  have  made  the  institution  possible.  The  build- 
ings with  their  equipment  represent  much  thought,  effort  and  sacrifice, 
and  as  you  raise  this  mile-stone  at  the  end  of  fifty  years  of  splendid 
history,  you  can  say  truthfully,  "Hitherto  the  Lord  hath  led  us." 

As  we  look  into  the  past,  our  hearts  receive  inspiration  for  pres- 
ent duties.  When  we  see  the  visions  that  led  our  fathers,  when  we 
know  their  toils  and  sacrifices  that  they  might  establish  here  an  insti- 
tution of  learning  that  would  cast  an  intellectual  and  moral  light  upon 
the  pathway  of  the  youth,  our  hearts  feel  something  of  the  thrill  of 
their  vision,  and  we  are  moved  to  build  upon  the  foundation  which  they 
have  laid.  In  our  busy  life,  when  so  many  voices  call  us?  and  when 
the  pressure  of  a  complex  and  intense  civilization  is  so  great,  we  are 
in  danger  of  losing  our  past,  and  forgetting  the  great  lessons  of  history. 
This  Semi-Centennial  Celebration  will  have  accomplished  a  great  deal, 
if  it  can  direct  your  people  to  the  scenes  of  a  great  past,  if  they  can  be 
led  back  among  those  scenes  where  heroic  souls  wept  and  prayed  and 
toiled.  The  inspiration  of  their  purpose  will  intensify  every  good  pur- 
pose of  your  heart,  and  create  good  sentiments,  which  are  necessary 
to  the  larger  growth  and  development  of  the  college. 

I  congratulate  you  to-day  for  the  contribution  your  Church  has 
made  to  the  general  cause  of  Christian  education.  Your  success  makes 
it  easier  for  every  other  college.     Every  successful  institution  contrib- 


KRSSLER   HALL 

utes  something  to  every  other  like  institution.  Therefore  we  feel  in- 
debted to  you.  You  are  by  your  success  here  proving  to  the  world 
the  need  and  the  value  of  a  Christian  college. 

The  Church  has  always  been  the  friend  of  education,  and  has  es- 
tablished and  fostered  institutions  of  learning  alongside  of  its  temples 
of  worship  Jesus'  commission  to  His  disciples  had  a  three-fold  aspect: 
they  were  to  preach,  to  teach,  and  to  heal.  The  Church  has  always 
preached  its  message  of  salvation  to  the  multitudes.  It  has  been  slow 
in  carrying  out  the  last  part  of  the  program,  but  to-day,  at  home  and 
in  the  foreign  lands,  our  hospitals  and  relief  stations  indicate  that  the 
Church  has  caught  the  meaning  of  Jesus'  words,  and  is  seeking  to 
carry  out  its  mission  of  healing.  There  was  a  time  when  the  Church 
occupied  the  field  of  higher  education  almost  alone.  The  oldest  and 
greatest  universities  in  our  land  to-day  were  established  by  the  Church. 
But  things  have  changed.  The  State  has  recognized  its  responsibilities 
in  this  direction,  and  has  developed  a  wonderful  system  of  schools, 
covering   all    grades    and    ages,    and    in    a    remarkably    short    lime.      The 


state  schools  have  the  resources  of  the  entire  state  back  of  them,  and 
this  together  with  an  organization  that  permeates  every  county  and 
school  district  in  the  state,  and  managed  by  well-trained  men,  has 
made  the  state  school  an  incomparable  competitor.  We  should  all  feel 
proud  of  our  state  institutions,  for  they  are  doing  a  marvelous  service 
in  dispelling  ignorance,  and  training  the  youth  of  our  land  for  the  re- 
sponsibilities of  citizenship.  The  system  is  linked  together  in  such  a 
way  that  the  boy  or  girl  finds  it  easy  to  go  from  the  public  schools  to 
the  High  Schools,  and  then  to  the  university.  The  denominational 
school  is,  by  reason  of  these  conditions,  passing  through  a  crisis. 

This  much  is  to  be  said,  however,  the  denominational  college  offers 
the  best  means  for  passing  from  the  High  School  to  the  university. 
This  is  its  distinctive  field.  The  President  of  the  State  University  has 
said  that  he  hoped  the  time  would  soon  come  when  they  would  have 
no  course  at  the  University  below  the  Junior  year.  And  this  is  as  it 
should  be.  I  am  thoroughly  convinced  that  it  is  a  mistake  to  take  the 
boy  or  girl  out  of  the  home  and  put  them  into  university  life  at  so  early 
an  age.  They  need  something  just  at  that  age  that  no  university  can 
give.  That  the  State  has  recognized  this  is  evident  from  the  fact  that 
educators  are  contemplating  adding  two  more  years  to  the  high  school 
course,  so  that  the  boy  may  have  the  home  influence  during  his  fresh- 
man and  sophomore  years.  In  some  states,  I  am  told,  they  have  already 
adopted  this  course.  The  college  has  a  splendid  future  if  she  gets  her- 
self ready  for  her  task?  but  there  must  be  adequate  endowment  and 
equipment.  The  college  that  does  not  fortify  herself  at  once  will  find 
it  exceedingly  difficult,  if  not  impossible,  to  do  so  after  this  change 
has  been  made. 

The  value  of  the  denominational  college  may  be  seen  in  the  con- 
tribution it  has  made  to  society.  Harvard,  William  and  Mary  in  Vir- 
ginia, Yale  in  Connecticut,  Princeton  in  New  Jersey,  Brown  in  Rhode 
Island,  and  Columbia  in  New  York  were  founded  by  religious  denomi- 
nations. It  has  been  pointed  out  that  one  can  easily  imagine  that  many 
of  the  great  leaders  of  all  good  movements  in  the  history  of  our  nation 
have  been  tramed  in  these  schools.  It  would  indeed  be  hard  to  esti- 
mate the  vast  influence  of  the  Christian  college.  The  Church  has  had  to 
depend  upon  it  for  its  ministers  and  leaders,  and  my  observation  has 
been  that  the  great  reforms  and  forward  movements  have  been  led  and 
supported  by  men  who  were  trained  in  Christian  colleges.  If  our  coun- 
try needs  anything  it  neevis  a  regeneration  of  its  moral  ideals.  And  how 
is  this  to  be  unless  it  comes  by  way  of  the  Church,  The  Christian 
school,  and  the  home? 

President  Wilson  has  well  said:  "I.  cannot  admit  that  a  man  estab- 
lishes his  right  to  call  himself  a  college  graduate  by  showing  me  his 
diploma.  The  only  way  he  can  prove  it  is  by  showing  that  his  eyes 
are  lifted  to  some  horizon  which  other  men,  less  instructed  than  he, 
have  been  privileged  to  see:  unless  he  carry  fruit  of  the  spirit,  he  has 
not  been  bred  where  spirits  are  bred."  These  are  sound  words.  The 
highest  mission  of  the  college  is  to  give  vision  and  dynamic  to  one's 
life.     Not  only  the  introduction  of  knowledge,  but  the  introduction  of 


THE  COLLEGE  CHURCH 


ideals  should  be  the  function  of  the  school.  A  college  course  ought  to 
contribute  definitely  and  positively  to  the  student's  preparation  for  the 
business  of  life.  It  has  been  said  that  the  business  of  life  is  three- 
fourths  of  the  solving  of  problems,  but  the  chemist's  problems  are  not 
all  chemical,  nor  the  lawyer  s  legal.  Life  is  larger  than  any  profession, 
and  every  man  is  more  than  his  professional  title  expresses.  I  have 
studied  with  some  care  the  causes  which  contributed  to  failure  among 
the  men  I  have  known,  and  in  the  majority  of  cases,  I  have  found 
that  weakness  in  his  moral  life  is  the  one  great  cause  of  a  man's  failure. 
The  Christian  college  is  unique  among  all  institutions  of  learning  in 
that  it  seeks  to  educate  the  heart  and  give  moral  purpose  and  moral 
strength  to  the  life.  And  that  education  is  very  inadequate  that  does 
not  ground  the  young  life  in  the  fundamental  principles  of  morals  and 
religion. 

In  Germany  one  of  the  chief  duties  of  the  Kaiser  is  the  training  of 
the   young   prince    for    the    responsibilities    which    shall    fall     upon     him 


when  he  is  called  upon  to  exercise  soverign  power.  But  in  America  the 
people  are  sovereign.  And  the  greatest  responsibility  that  rests  upon  us 
is  the  proper  training  of  the  young  princes  and  princesses  who  are  to 
be  the  kings  and  queens  of  to-morrow.  And  the  highest  citizenship  is 
impossible  without  moral  purpose. 

Education  has  been  denned  as  the  gradual  adjustment  of  the  mind 
to  the  possessions  of  the  race.  When  we  look  over  the  splendid  record 
of  our  civilization,  what  passessions  do  we  value  most?  Are  not  the 
choicest  treasures  to  be  found  in  the  realm  of  morals  and  religion? 
If  our  nation  becomes  decadent,  it  will  not  be  because  of  a  lack  of 
intellectual  training,  but  because  of  a  dearth  of  moral  ideals.  We  must 
adjust  the  minds  of  the  youth  to  their  moral  and  religious  inheritance, 
for  that  is  the  inheritance  that  is  incorruptible,  undefiled,  and  that 
fadeth   not   away. 

What  a  man  sees  depends  altogether  on  what  he  is.  One  man 
sees  only  a  narrow  circle  of  things:  another  man  sees  a  circle  that 
runs  around  the  heavens  and  goes  down  to  the  burning  core  of  the 
earth.  The  whole  world  to  the  biologist  is  teeming  with  life.  The 
artist  sees  it  saurated  and  aflame  with  beauty.  But  to  the  spiritually- 
minded  every  common  bush  is  afire  with  God.  One  astronomer  turns 
his  telescope  toward  the  heavens  and  says:  "I  see  no  trace  of  God." 
Another,  looking  through  the  same  telescope  exclaims:  "Oh,  God,  I 
am  thinking  Thy  thoughts  after  Thee."  We  see  what  we  see.  We  pour 
ourselves  into  our  world,  and  make  it.  The  degree  of  a  man's  education, 
therefore,  is  measured  by  the  width,  depth  and  delicacy  of  his  apprecia- 
tion. 

Some  one  has  said:  "It  is  a  law  of  dynamics  that  if  the  projectile 
force  be  strong  enough,  and  the  momentum  sufficiently  sustained 
even  a  small  body  may  gain  percussive  impetus  enough  to  split  a 
world  in  two."  The  Great  Lakes  flow  along  lazy  and  silent,  but  con- 
densed at  Niagara,  they  thunder  like  a  perpetual  cyclone.  And  the 
functions  of  the  Christian  college  is  to  put  projectile  force  into  human 
lives^  to  give  to  them  purpose,  and  increased  momentum,  to  gather  up 
the  scattered  forces  of  the  mind,  and  so  organize  them  and  inspire  them 
that  the  man  himself  becomes  an  intellectual  and  moral  Niagara. 

I  have  had  opportunity  during  the  recent  years,  which  have  been 
spent  in  educational  centers,  of  observing  the  lives  of  a  great  many  stu- 
dents. And  during  these  years  I  have  found  that  students  may  be 
divided  into  four  classes:  First,  those  who  live  in  the  zone  of  abandon- 
ment. This  includes  all  those  who  have  no  interest  whatever  in 
religion.  By  reason  of  their  training,  or  perhaps  from  other  causes, 
they  have  thrown  it  all  aside,  and  they  live  and  move  and  have  their 
being  in  the  zone  of  absolute  abandonment.  They  have  put  all  thought 
of  God  and  religion  out  of  their  mind.  It  has  no  place  in  their  interest 
or  in  endeavor.  Their  whole  thought  and  energy  are  given  to  things  of 
this  life.     Not  a  great  many  belong  to  this  class,  but  there  are  a  few. 

There  is  a  second  class  of  students  who  live  in  the  zone  of  indiffer- 
ence. They  are  not  openly  bad,  but  are  indifferently  good.  They  do 
not  think  seriously  of  the  higher  things  of  life,  but  are  not  averse  to 


them.  They  lack  conviction.  They  lack  moral  purpose.  They  are  mere 
drifters  upon  the  high  seas  of  life.  Whence  they  came,  whither  they 
are  going,  does  not  engage  their  thoughts. 

There  is  a  third  class  of  students  who  live  in  the  zone  of  super- 
ficiality. Their  hearts  have  been  touched.  They  manifest  some  interest 
in  religion,  and  in  those  things  which  make  for  the  higher  life.  But 
sentiments  and  convictions  in  their  lives  are  like  the  seed  which  fell 
upon  the  stony  ground;  they  give  promise  of  stability  and  growth,  but 
soon  dry  up,  and  leave  no  permanent  results  in  the  life. 

There  is  a  fourth  class  of  students  who  live  and  move  and  have 
their  being  in  the  zone  of  great  convictions.  Their  hearts  have  been 
touched  as  well  as  their  minds.  All  that  is  deepest  in  their  lives  has 
been  aroused.  They  believe  something,  and  believe  it  with  all  their 
mind  and  soul  and  strength.  And  to  this  class  of  students  we  will 
have  to  look  for  leadership  in  all  the  affairs  of  life.  It  is  the  function 
of  the  Christian  college  to  lead  the  other  three  classes  into  this  zone, 
the  zone  of  great  and  pronounced  convictions^  where  they  are  moved 
by  the  highest  ideals,  where  they  receive  moral  purpose,  where  they 
come  to  concentrate  themselves  to  the  higher  service  of  which  they 
are   capable. 

Not  long  ago  a  stranger,  who  was  watching  a  game  of  athletics 
inquired  of  a  student  who  was  standing  near  as  to  the  reason  for  the 
unquestioned  leadership  of  a  young  man  in  the  university.  The  student 
replied:  "It  is  not  because  of  his  intellectual  attainments,  nor  is  it 
because  he  is  a  great  athlete;  we  follow  him  as  a  leader  in  this  school 
because  he  is  the  real  thing."  He  was  a  young  man  of  moral  purpose 
and  highest  ideals,  who  lived  in  the  zone  of  great  convictions.  The 
young  life  must  be  trained  morally  as  well  as  intellectually.  There 
must  be  the  power  of  self-control,  the  force  which  comes  from  above 
that  steadies  the  life  in  the  midst  of  temptations  and  struggles  which 
come   to   all. 

In  order  to  properly  train  and  equip  the  youth  of  our  land  there 
must  be  a  program  adequate  to  meet  the  needs  of  their  growing  life. 
On  one  occasion  a  student  was  showing  a  friend  through  a  new  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  building.  He  was  pointing  out  to  him  its  splendid  equipment,  its 
various  opportunities  for  amusement.  After  he  had  finished  his  story, 
the  friend  remarked,  "But  can  you  get  religion  in  this  place?"  The  stu- 
dent replied,  "Well,  I  suppose  so.  But  you  are  not  exposed  to  it." 
The  great  difficulty  has  been  in  all  of  our  educational  work  that  the 
soul  and  mind  of  the  student  have  not  been  exposed  to  the  great  Chris- 
tian ideals,  to  the  personality  of  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Savior  of  men. 

Mr.  Sedgwick  Cooper,  while  visiting  the  schools  of  India,  found 
that  the  students  in  the  government  schools  were  very  anxious  for  a 
religious  education.  He  attended  a  debate  in  which  they  discussed  the 
question  of  whether  or  not  religious  education  should  be  introduced 
into  the  government  schools  of  India.  He  said  that  the  entire  body  of 
students  rose  to  their  feet  and  cheered  the  speaker,  a  Parsee  student, 
when  he  remarked  that  "we,  as  students  in  this  government  school, 
are  not  satisfied  merely  to  be  turned  out  as  intellectual  experts.     We 


demand  an  education  in  religion."  This  is  really  the  deepest  desire 
of  all  young  people.  And  the  college  that  does  not  offer  an  adequate 
training  for  the  moral  and  religious  life  of  the  student  is  falling  far 
short  of  its  highest  mission. 

Let  me  say  a  few  words  with  reference  to  the  value  of  your  col- 
lege to  the  town.  The  thing  that  puts  your  town  on  the  map  is  Cen- 
tral Wesleyan  College.  Every  town  has  something  unique  and  distinct, 
some  one  thing  that  gives  it  a  place  among  the  towns  of  the  state. 
You  cannot  depend  upon  your  factories,  your  wholesale  houses,  or 
other  great  business  institutions  to  give  prestige  and  reputation  to 
your  town.  The  college  is  the  one  thing  that  has  made  Warrenton 
known  far  and  wide,  and  as  your  college  goes  forward,  your  town  will 
go  forward.     It  is  the  one  great  asset  which  you  have. 

I  was  indeed  glad  to  learn  that  the  citizens  of  this  town  contributed 
the  magnificient  sum  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  toward  the  en- 
dowment of  the  college.  This  in  itself  speaks  louder  than  words.  The 
college  is  to  be  congratulated  on  having  such  a  loyal  company  of  citi- 
zens who  believe  in  the  college,  and  who  believe  strongly  enough  that 
they  are  willing  to  give  it  the  support  it  deserves. 

You  should  emphasize  your  town  as  a  place  of  residence.  This  is 
a  beautiful  place,  and  a  desirable  home  town.  As  the  college  goes  for- 
ward, men  of  means  will  locate  here  to  educate  their  children.  There- 
fore, advertise  your  town  as  a  beautiful  place  to  live,  to  educate  and 
rear  children.  The  college  will  help  you  as  business  men  to  promote 
all  of  the  interests  of  your  little  city.  We  have  recently  held  a  great 
Pageant  and  Masque  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis.  It  was  a  tremendous 
success.  This  was  made  possible  by  reason  of  the  fact  that  everybody 
worked  for  it  in  perfect  harmony  of  co-operation,  the  rich  and  the 
poor,  the  black  and  the  white,  all  were  interested  in  it  and  worked  for 
it.  It  is  an  illustration  of  what  can  be  done  when  we  all  work  together 
for  a  common  end.  You  are  engaged  now  in  a  great  campaign  to 
increase  the  endowment  of  your  college.  This  will  be  no  difficult  task 
if  all  of  your  people  get  the  burden  of  it  on  their  heart,  and  pull  togeth- 
er.    Then  you  will  more  than  succeed  in  your  effort. 

The  secret  of  success  in  this  kind  of  work  is  getting  the  interest 
and  the  effort  of  all,  those  who  are  able  to  contribute  in  a  large  way, 
and  those  who  can  give  out  of  their  small  resources.  Booker  Washing- 
ton, the  negro  educator,  when  he  completed  building  a  new  building  for 
his  work,  sent  out  a  leter  to  all  of  his  people  requesting  them  to  make 
some  contribution  for  a  larger  school.  He  said  one  day  an  old  colored 
woman  came  into  his  office  to  present  her  gift;  it  was  tied  up  in  a 
bandanna  handkerchief^  and  when  she  spread  out  her  gift  before  him, 
it  was  found  to  be  a  half  dozen  hen  eggs.  She  said  this  was  all 
that  she  had  to  give,  but  it  was  in  her  heart  to  do  something.  When  ar 
incentive  like  this  takes  hold  of  your  people,  when  they  come  to  appre- 
ciate the  value  and  worth  of  your  college,  and  get  a  vision  of  its  mar- 
velous future,  and  rally  to  its  support  with  their  gifts,  both  great  and 
small^  your  task  will  become  easy.  The  greater  college  you  dream  of 
will  become  a  realization,  and  as  the  college  goes  forward,  adding  to 


its  departments,  increasing  its  equipment  here  and  there,  your  town  will 
receive  untold  benefits. 

May  the  God  of  your  fathers  be  with,  (and  help  you  face  a  new 
half-century.  May  this  splendid  institution  be  the  home  of  great  ideals. 
May  your  youth  come  to  this  campus  and  to  these  halls  of  learning  and 
find  what  Moses  found  on  Mount  Sinai;  may  their  eyes  be  lifted  to 
some  distant  horizon;  may  their  hearts  be  filled  with  a  light  that  shall 
shine  through  all  the  years. 


THE  NIEDRINGHAUS  MEMORIAL  BUILDING  (Gymnasium) 


Institutions  Represented  by  Delegates 

Carleton  College,  Farmington,  Mo.,  Mrs.  Chas.  Schuettler,  A.B. 
Baldwin  Wallace  College,  Berea,  Ohio,  Prof.  C.  W.  Hertzler,  D.  D. 
Blinn  Memorial  College,  Brenham,  Tex.,  Prof.  John  Pluenneke,  D.  D. 
Central  College,  Fayette,  Mo.,  Prof.  Charles  Bernard  Flow. 
Charles  City  College,  Charles  City,  Iowa,  Rev.  W.  T.  Loeck,  Alumnus. 
Dorcas  Institute,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Rev.  J.  A.  Diekmann,  D.D.,  Rector. 
Drew    Theological    Seminary,     Madison,     N.    J.,     Rev.    Joseph    M.     M. 

Gray,   D.D.,  Alumnus* 
Enterprise  Normal  Academy,  Enterprise,  Kans..  Prof.  H.  W.  Steininger. 
Garrrett    Biblical    Institute,    Evanston,    111.,    Rev.    Louis    F.    W.    Lese- 

mann,  D.D.,  Alumnus. 
Goucher  College,  Baltimore,  Md.,  Bishop  Chas  W.  Smith,  D.D.,  Trustee. 
Hamline  University,  St.   Paul,  Minn.,   Rev.  J.   C.   Handy,  Alumnus* 
Missouri  State  University,  Columbia,  Mo.  Prof.  Herman  Almstedt,  Ph.D. 
Northwestern  University,  Evanston,  111.,  President  Abram  Winegardner 

Harris,    LL.D. 
St.    Paul's    College,    St.    Paul    Park,    Minn.,    Rev.    L.    W.    Diedrich,    A.B. 

Alumnus  and  Trustee 
Tarkio  College,  Tarkio,  Mo.,  Mr.  Arthur  Orville  Wilson,  A.B.,  Alumnus* 
Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Mr.  J.  Phillip  Polster,  Alumnus. 

Representatives  of  Various  Organizations 

City  and   Community,   Mr.    E.   H.   Winter,    Editor  "Warrenton   Banner." 

State   of   Missouri,   His   Excellency,   Gov.   Elliott  W.   Major,   LL.D.* 

The  Nation,  The  Hon.  Champ  Clark,  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives* 

German    Methodism,   Rev.  J.   A.    Diekmann,   D.D.,   Cincinnati,   Ohio. 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Bishop  Charles  W.  Smith,  LL.D.,  St. 
Louis,  Mo.;  Bishop  William  O.  Shepard,  LL.D.,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Board  of  Education,  M.  E.  Church,  Rev.  Thomas  Nicholson.  D.D., 
Coresponding   Secretary   of  the   Board. 

Deaconess  Work  of  Germany,  Sister  Sophia  Hurter,  Hamburg,  Germany 

Evangelical  Synods,  Rev.  Wm.  Theo.  Jungk,  D.D.,  Editor  "Der  Frie- 
densbote",   St.   Louis,  Mo. 

Missouri  College  Union  Prof.  Charles  Bernard  Flow,  representing 
President  Linn. 

Missouri  Conference,  Rev.  H.  J.  Dueker,  A.M.,  Green  City,  Mo. 

Missouri  Conference,  (M.  E.  South),  Rev.  C.  W.  Tadlock,  St.  Louis.  Mo. 

St.   Louis  Conference,   Rev.  B.   F.   Crissman,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

St.    Louis    German    Conference,    Rev.   Wm.   Koeneke,    D.D.,   Warrenton. 

State   Department  of   Education,   Prof.   George   Melcher,  Jefferson  City. 

State  Educational  Institutions,  Prof.  Herman  Almstedt,  Ph.D..  Colum- 
bia, Mo. 

West    German    Conference,    Rev.    John    Kracher,    Humboldt,    Nebraska. 


*Unavoidably  detained. 


Institutions  Sending  Greetings 

Allegheny  Colleg*e,  Meadsville,  Pa.,  Pres.  Wm.  H.  Crawford,  LL.D. 
American    University,    Washington,    D.    C,    Chancellor    Franklin    E.    E. 

Hamilton,    Ph.D. 
Baldwin-Wallace   College,    Berea,   O.,    President   Arthur    Breslich,    Ph.D. 
Bever  College,  Bever,  Pa.,  President  Le  Roy  Weller,  Ph.D. 
Cazenoria  Seminary,  Cazenoria,  N.  Y.,  Prof.  C.  A.  Martin,  Sec'y. 
Centenary     College     Institute,     Hackettstown,    N.    J.,    President  J.    M. 

Meeker,  Ph.D. 
Central  College,  Fayette,  Mo.,  President  Paul  H.  Linn,  D,D. 
Charles  City  College,  Charles  City,  la.,  Acting  Pres.  W.  F.  Finke,  D.D. 
Christian  University,  Canton,  Mo.,  Acting  Pres.,  Herbert   Garn,  Ph.D. 
Dakota  Wesleyan  University,  Mitchell,  S.  Dak.,  Pres.  W.  Seaman,  D.D. 
Drew  Seminary,  Carmel,  N.  Y.,  President  Robert  J.  Trevorrow,  D.D. 
Evanston  Academy,   (Northwestern  Univ.)   Evanston,  111.,  Principal  N. 

W.   Helm,   A.M. 
Garrett  Biblical  Institute,   Evanston,  111.,  Pres.  Chas.  M.   Stuart,  Ph.D. 
Genesee     Wesleyan     Seminary,     Lima     N.     Y.,      President     LaFayette 

Congdon,    D.D. 
Goucher  College,  Baltimore,  Md.,  President  Wm.  W.  Guth,  Ph.D. 
Hamline  University,  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  President  Samuel  Kerfoot,  D.D. 
Hedding  College,  Abington,  111.,  President  W.  D.  Agnew,  D.D. 
Iliff  School  of  Theology,  Denver  Colo.,  President  H.  F.  Rail,  D.D. 
Illinois  Woman's  College,  Jacksonville,  111.,  Pres.  Jos.  R.  Harker,  D.D. 
James  Milliken  University,  Decatur,  111.,  President  G.  E.  Fellows,  Ph.D. 
Lawrence  College,  Appleton,  Wis.,  President  S.  Plantz, 
Maclay     College     of     Theology,  Los     Angeles,     Calif., 

Healy,  D.D. 
Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary,  Kents  Hill,  Me.,  Principal 
Missouri  Valley  College,  Marshall,  Mo.,  President  Wm.H.  Black,  D.D. 
Missouri  Wesleyan  College,  Cameron,  Mo.,  President  H.  R.  DeBra,  D.D. 
Nebraska,        Wesleyan     University,     Lincoln,    Nebr.,     Chancellor   C.    A. 

Fulmer,  A.M. 
Saint  Louis  University,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  President  Bernard  Oetting,  S.J. 
Simpson  College,  Indianola,  la.,  President  Francis  L.  Strickland,  D.D. 
Southwest  College,  Winfield,  Kans.,  President  F.  E.  Mossmann,  Ph.D. 
State  University  of  Iowa,  President  Thomas  H.  Macbride,  Ph.D. 
University  of  Denver,  Denver,  Colo.,  Chancellor  H.  A.   Buchtel.LL.D. 
University  of  Kansas,  Lawrence,  Kans.,  Secretary  to  the  President. 
University     of     Illinois,    Urbana-Champaign,    111.,    President    Edward    J. 

James,  LL.D. 
Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Acting  Chancellor,  Frederic  A. 

Hall,  Ph.D. 
West  Virginia  Wesleyan  College,   Buckhannon,  W.  Va.,  Acting  Presi- 
dent Thos.  W.  Haught. 
Williamsport   Dickinson   Seminary,   Williamsport,   Pa.,   President   B.   C. 

Conner,  D.   D. 


D.D. 

Dean 

E.     A. 

Newton 

Ph.D. 

Official  Papers  and  Boards  Sending 
Congratulations. 

Bethesda  Hospital,  Cincinnati,  O.,  C.  Golder,  D.D.,  President. 

Board  of  Conference  Claimants,  M.  E.  Church,  Chicago,  111.,  Rev.  Jos. 

B.   Hingeley,   D.D.   Secretary. 
Board  of  Education,  M.  E.  Church,  New  York,  Rev.  Jno.  W.  Hancher, 

D.D.,  Assistant  Secretary. 
Carnegie  Foundation,  New  York. 
Central  Office  of  the  Epworth  League,  Chicago,  Rev.  Wm.  F.  Sheridan, 

D.D.,    Secretary. 
Central    Christian    Advocate,    Kansas    City,    Rev.    Claudius    B.    Spencer, 

D.D.,    Editor. 
Christian  Advocate,  New  York,  Rev.  George  P.  Eckman,  D.D.,  Editor. 
General  Education  Board,  New  York,  Mr.  Wallace  Buttrick,  Secretary. 
Northwestern    Christian    Advocate,    Chicago,    Rev.     E.     Robt.     Zaring, 

D.D.,  Editor. 


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